FLOWERED WALL-PAPERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19953, 10 November 1934, Page 11

FLOWERED WALL-PAPERS

REGENCY ROOMS BRING REVIVAL It seems likely that in a few years most of the shiny painted walls of Mayfair rooms will have disappeared in favour of flowered wall-papers. Hand-painted wallpapers copied from the old Chinese ones that once formed a background to Chippendale furniture are now being hung in London and country drawing-rooms. Hostesses are convinced that they are most suitable with Regency furniture. Lord Dudley has a room at Himley decorated in this manner. The Duchess of Westminster has a plum blossom paper at Bourdon House painted for her by Lady Eileen Orde, and the Hon. Mrs Garthwaite has a Chinese blue “bird and flower” paper in her Green Street boudoir. Lady Weymouth chose sprigged flowered wallpapers for every room in her new London home. A novelty in a flowered wallpaper for a large London ballroom was painted by the Hon. Griselda Joynson-Hicks for the reception-room at the Monkey Club in Pont Street. Branches of mimosa, apple blossom, bunches of daffodils, primroses, and tulips are appliqued on to the pale-green papered walls at irregular intervals, to give the effect of a garden of flowers reflected through glass.