PRESERVATION OF WALLPAPERS AS PARTS OF INTERIORS

Historic types of wallpaper and decorative schemes of interiors
to the strong influence of the English fashion of print rooms.
Fields, such as over-mantles, over-doors and panels framed by
borders, were embellished with motifs and figures derived from
antiquity, such as festoons, garlands, medallions and various
scenes from Pompeian wall paintings. (Fig. 20)
Another wide-spread fashion was to divide the field above
the dado into regular panels treated with pastel tones of basic
colours: red, yellow, blue, green or grey. After 1789 the greens,
pinks and yellows became more intense. Until the first quarter
of the 19th century, such colours as apple-green, rose-red and
pailla-yellow were in vogue. 103 The colours chosen for interiors
were most commonly influenced by French Rococo. According
to the French theoretician and architect Nicola La Camus de
Méziéres (1721–1789), the tone of a room needed to be chosen
according to the complexion and hair colour of its inhabitant.
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Thümmler, Die Geschichte der Tapete, 89.
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