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