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Furniture in Print

Pattern Books from the Redwood Library
September 22 - November 12, 1989

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Segment of vintage wallpaper featuring a pattern of lush, oversized pink florals, peacocks, and classical architectural structures. The repeat design is set on a distressed beige background.

Unknown Maker, French

Flowers and Birds Wallpaper
Aged, bronze bordered, gray wallpaper of a chalice with bronze floral detailing around its rim and body, which extends outwards onto a stone pedestal. Four birds sit atop the chalice.

Zuber & Cie

Directoire Wallpaper border

Franz Xaver Habermann

Garden Views framed by Rocaille Ornaments
 Painting of a very light-skinned young woman, lying in bed, making intense, suggestive eye contact with the viewer. Her breasts are exposed and she wears a pink and white headcovering.

Rev. Matthew William Peters

Lydia
Weathered, long rectangular white panel with symmetrical accents above a small three-legged table, holding a blue and orange horizontally striped container, on top of a patterned black and red box.

Etienne de Lavallée

Design for a Wallpaper Panel
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Thomas Potts

Designs for Curtain Pins Curtain Poles, Drawer Handles, Knob Cupboard Turns, Bed Caps, Clock Pins, Doorknobs, etc.
Bronze urn with leave-like handles that extend across its body. Below, a group of winged babies pull back a goat. Detailed carved lines surround the body and handles.

Unknown Maker, French

Classical Vase Wallpaper
Decorative frieze featuring scenes within semi-circles surrounded by flowers alternating with bronze winged figures holding up urns. The color palette is a subdued mint, pink, bronze, and cream.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper Frieze Psyche and Love
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