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Wallpaper History Review, 2022

Editorial 5

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

NEW DISCOVERIES

An Unexpected Discovery 6

Gail Falkingham & Rachel Greenwood

Gawthorpe Hall’s Walter Crane Investigation 8

Rachel Pilling

FOCUS ON COLLECTIONS

A New Museum for Wallpapers in Kassel 11

Astrid Wegener

The Castle Howard Wallpaper Collection 14

Eleanor Brooke-Peat

On Arthur & Robert’s masterpiece Ovid’s 21

Metamorphoses: a restoration, exhibition and publication project by the Swiss National Museum Helen Bieri Thomson

FEATURES

Relieving Stress in Victorian England: the Design 33

Reform Movement pattern-making strategy

Corinne Hoge

House Decorators of Norfolk 39

Dianne Lawrence

Pomar Flores: Mallorca’s wallpaper collection 46

Josep Pomar

Cheap, Yet Elegant and Tasteful Paperhangings: 53

children employed in paper-staining in the mid-19th century

Mike Malley

Hilton, Potter & Bros.: a new perspective on the early 56

development of wallpaper printing by machine

Mike Malley

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: drawing 59

parallels with the Dykes decorating family

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

NEW LEASE OF LIFE

Restoring Wallpaper at Dundurn National Historic 65

Site, Canada: a tale of two wallpapers and a border that separated them

Carolyn Samko

Chinese Export Papers at Chatsworth 68

Sash Giles

REVIEWS: BOOKS

De Gournay Hand-Painted Interiors 75

by Claud Cecil Gurney

Phillippa Mapes

William Morris edited by Anna Mason 75

David Skinner

The V&A Source Book of Pattern & Ornament 77

by Amelia Calver

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

Wallpaper, a History of Style and Trends 78

by Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz

Eleanor Brooke-Peat

REVIEWS: EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

White Psyche at the Whitworth, Manchester 79

Rowena Beighton-Dykes

Using wallpaper to get through lockdown: the story 81

of a wallpaper diary

Lucy Birkinshaw

SNIPPETS AND QUERIES

The Banana Wallpaper at Chatsworth 87

Sash Giles

The scenic Les Combat des Grecs exhibited and 88

explained in Trieste

Bernard Jacqué

The Merryl Huxtable Bursary Prize 2021: 89

Auchindrain Township

Rachel Thomas

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Museum of the Home 91

Lucy Ellis

APPRECIATION

Geert Wisse 1965–2021 94

Bernard Jacqué

APPRECIATION

Christine Woods 1946–2022 95

Bernard Jacqué

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