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In 1806 Joseph Dufour et Cie, in collaboration with the designer Jean-Gabriel Charvet, produced a twenty-panel set of scenic wallpaper entitled Sauvages de la Mer du Pacifique (' Savages of the Pacific '), depicting Cook's travels. The wallpaper was printed in color from multiple woodblocks. Machine-made continuous paper, just invented, was not ...
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
Decorative wallpaper pane by Poterlet. Marie Victor Ignace Poterlet also called Marie Poterlet, Victor Poterlet, and M. Victor Poterlet (1811–1889) was a 19th-century French wallpaper designer, engraver and printmaker. [1] [2] His work is held in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design ...
Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
Decor Chinois in rose, 1832 wallpaper designed and manufactured by Zuber et Cie, Rixheim France. For its production, Zuber & Cie uses woodblocks (more than 100,000) engraved as early as the 18th century. [2] Zuber & Cie's panoramic wallpapers include Vues de l'Amérique du Nord, [3] Eldorado, [4] Hindoustan, [5] les Guerres d'Independence, and ...
Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started experimenting with a camera obscura and ...
The Château de Castelnaud is a medieval fortress in the commune of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, overlooking the river Dordogne in Périgord, southern France. It was erected to face its rival, the Château de Beynac.
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