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Description: | This is sophisticated and subtle wallpaper by Edward Bawden. The repeat pattern is based upon bricks and a retreating wall effect, which would give a room a rather surreal effect when applied.
Bawden certainly played with many different influences in his wallpaper designs but they are all characterized by humour and a playful approach to decoration that comes out of his illustrative work the Curwen Press and others.
Most contemporary homes in the 1930s would have been wallpapered with a floral or geometric pattern, or with a raised Lincrusta paper and a brightly coloured border. It is interesting that despite the modernists' love of minimalist spaces, they approved of 'artistic' wallpapers and textiles like Bawden's. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | Cecil Higgins Art Gallery | Subjects: | Art and Design | Temporal: | ca. 1930 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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