We recently had a trip to the Whitworth gallery to see its current exhibition of 1920s and 1930s wallpaper designs. We also looked at the wallpaper archives, looking at wallpaper from the early 1900s.
Flights of Fancy
During the 20th century there was a move away from highly patterned walls which obviously affected the manufacturers. So paper decorations were produced on to textured papers. In the 1920s and 1930s this was widely available and varied largely in price. The exhibition consists of papers which were inspired by the outside and brought inside. There were large potted plants and you could also get smaller shrubs to act as a border. Alongside the samples were pictures of how it would look in the house. (as shown above). As you can see there is very little furniture as it would have blocked the wallpaper which also fitted with the modernist style.
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