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inflation in the Weimar Republic | Germany, 1923: banknotes had lost so much value that they were used as wallpaper.
For example, Balzac's friend Hyacinthe de Latouche had knowledge of hanging wallpaper.
Although linoleum as a floor covering dates to the 1860s, the linocut printing technique was used first by the artists of Die Brücke in Germany between 1905 – 13 where it had been similarly used for wallpaper printing.
During this time, she had the interior lined with original William Morris wallpaper and two of her sons had smaller houses built in the grounds.
After moving in, Gwenda begins to believe that she must be psychic, as she seems to know things about the house which she could not possibly know: the location of a connecting door that had been walled over, the pattern of a previous wallpaper, a set of steps in the garden that are not where they should be, and so on.
Repairs to a leaking ceiling that threatened the silk wallpaper in the ‘ Swan Suite ’, and toning down some of the more vibrant colours in furnishings and finishes, were among the work she had done.
The once-glamorous wallpaper was peeling from the guestroom ceiling, and numerous cracks had appeared in the bathroom walls.
Following the Restoration of Charles II, wealthy people across England began demanding wallpaper again-Cromwell's regime had imposed a boring culture on people, and following his death, wealthy people began purchasing comfortable domestic items which had been banned under the Puritan state.
In 1785 Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf had invented the first machine for printing coloured tints on sheets of wallpaper.
However, the end of the war saw a massive demand in Europe for British goods which had been inaccessible during the wars, including cheap, colourful wallpaper.
By the early twentieth century, wallpaper had established itself as one of the most popular household items across the Western world.
Five days later, on November 19, 1979, Judi Stish Ross married wallpaper salesman Bruce Nathan, whom she had met during her separation from her first husband.
Her marriage to Viscount Althorp was not a happy one and, in 1967, she left to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wallpaper fortune whom she had met the year before.
For the second season, the walls had pink wallpaper with red lines on it.
For the third season, the walls had wallpaper with orange leaves on it.
1865 ) in Boise, Idaho had backed wallpaper used over newspaper.
Club wrote that Morrissey had " the charisma of beige wallpaper " and that " the producers could have replaced him halfway through shooting with a handsome mahogany coat rack and nobody would be able to tell the difference ".
By 2008 a total of 30, 000 items had been listed including an unexploded Second World War bomb, a jewel-encrusted chalice, a roll of 19th-century flock wallpaper and a coconut with carved face and hair.
The building had a unique architecture and interior design, with curving hallways, lampshades, " bubblepaper " wallpaper and many other curious traits.
On the return of the company, all the fittings of the theatre had been removed, including the seats, carpets and even the wallpaper.
There were different departments, and each floor had its own theme, such as a children's floor, a floor for men, a book store, a food market, and a " home " floor which sold items such as wallpaper, paint, cutlery, soft furnishings and even statues.
Visiting the complex with self-trained entomologist Charles Pomerantz, the two peeled back wallpaper to find the walls swarming with mites, so much so that tenants had described that " the walls had movement ".

wallpaper and hung
Early wallpaper featured scenes similar to those depicted on tapestries, and large sheets of the paper were sometimes hung loose on the walls, in the style of tapestries, and sometimes pasted as today.
The wallpaper was reproduced in 1987 from that hung by Potter in 1906 and covers the walls and ceiling.
* Green or Garden Room hung with Chinese wallpaper ( originally from Townley Castle, County Louth, Ireland with Rococo carved chimneypiece
The walls are hung with Chinese wallpaper depicting birds amidst bamboo.
The new wallpaper is similar to the wallpaper used after the 1986 fire, which hung in the Rovers for 22 years.

wallpaper and on
It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.
Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper, and the only lesser immediacy of block capitals that simulate window lettering, manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture plane so that it does not `` jump ''.
Mica is used in decorative coatings on wallpaper, concrete, stucco, and tile surfaces.
At the start of " The Hidden Tiger " Peel is redecorating her apartment ( wearing a jumpsuit and drinking champagne ); she peels off a strip of wallpaper, revealing the words " Mrs Peel " painted on the wall beneath.
She turns to see Steed in the apartment removing another strip of wallpaper, revealing " We're needed " painted underneath on another wall.
Design, science and industry came together in the Festival Pattern Group, which commissioned textiles, wallpaper, domestic objects and Festival exhibits based on x-ray crystallography.
Tiffany worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding the opalescent floor to ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall.
Not only the work of British artists and craftspeople is on display, but also work produced by European artists that was purchased or commissioned by British patrons, as well as imports from Asia, including porcelain, cloth and wallpaper.
* the Großer Palais built in 1806 / 09 by Severin, contains a special treasure in the oval garden hall: a painted ceiling and wallpaper depicting the Amor and Psyche legend of the Apuleius ( based on designs by Lois Lafitte and Mary Blonder printed in 1820 in Paris ).
Other rooms on the second floor are mostly bedrooms, which include the Chinese Room ( directly above the Tyrconnel Room ) with its original hand painted 18th century Chinese wallpaper, the Yellow Room ( directly above the Blue Room ), and the Windsor Bedroom ( directly above the School Room ), so called following its use by King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, who became the Duke of Windsor after the abdication crisis of 1936.
All manufactured wallpaper patterns are based on these groups.
By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain was the leading wallpaper manufacturer in Europe, exporting vast quantities to Europe in addition to selling on the middle-class British market.
His sky blue wallpaper with fleurs-de-lys was used in 1783 on the first balloons by the Montgolfier brothers.
Hand-blocking wallpapers like these are manufactured by using a centuries old method in which wallpaper is hand-printed from hand-carved blocks on paper.
Any possible course of experience resulting from a possible course of action will apparently underdetermine our surroundings: it would determine, for example, that there is either white wallpaper under red light or red wallpaper under white light, and so on.
Purporting to be composed of material written by women and rejected by other magazines, Le Petit Journal des Refusées was printed on wallpaper and cut to an irregular shape.
A wallpaper group ( or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group ) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern.

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