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Sunday, November 1, 2009

William Morris meets Adams Family mansion....


Happy Halloween!  I love this wallpaper called Elysian Fields from Flavor Paper......."paradise waits in these immortal fields of bliss."  It is completely in the William Morris style with intertwining flowers and winged creatures (of course WM typically used birds)---here it is bats and carnivorous plants.  I'm trying to think of where I would use this paper---it would have to be a guest bathroom, maybe over dark charcoal beadboard wainscoating.  Plus, at $150 a roll, you'd go broke doing a real size room.   I can't believe the designer Dan Funderburgh was not  thinking about Morris when he designed this paper.  His web site describes his work as "a repudiation of the fabricated schism between art and decoration".  WM would approve.

Flavor Paper also sells another paper they call "Kabloom" that is a copy of J. H. Dearle's famous paper "Seaweed" (1901) in cool modern colorways.   be still my heart.....