Thursday, September 2, 2010

Historic wallpaper: the past was not sepia toned


Here's a collage of nineteenth century wallpapers and floor coverings that I saw on the New England trip. Most are reproductions from Old Sturbridge and Salem.

Interior accents like these always remind me of how colorful, and even downright busy, the visual world of the past was. Would 1830s New Englanders find my neutral toned apartment boring and lower class?

On the other hand, I was just struck with an earnest desire to own a pair of orange shoes.

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