Author: Not Identified
Title: Brunschwig & Fils, Inc. : Volume 24: The Cooper-Hewitt Collection [of Wallcoverings]
Description: [New York, N.Y.], Brunschwig & Fils, 1982. Hardcover. Red leather and beige & red paper boards with white lettering on the spine, with mounted white title card on front cover, with red lettering; unpaginated; approximately [68] samples in vivid color. Price list is present in the back of the book. "The Cooper-Hewitt Collection of wallcoverings is the most extensive in the United States; and it is the broadest in geographic and historic range of any in the world. Beginning with early painted leathers and including fine papers from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as contemporary production in a ariety of materials, the collection documents almost the entire history of the use of wallcoverings. Aware that wallcoverings reflect historic and social changes in style in a most accurate way, the Museum's founders, the Hewitt sisters, included them in the design museum that now bears their name. It was their intention that the collection serve as a resource for study, and it has been used for such purposes for many decades. We are immensely pleased that this collaboration with Brunschwig & Fils will enable a wider audience to appreciate with superb designs in our collection." -- Lisa Taylor, Director, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Good+ (Boards are moderately edgeworn and scuffed/smudged/worn through at corners; covers are starting at the hinges; first page has creasing at the corner and is toned/foxed/smudged/scuffed; textblock edges have some light smudging; interior is clean with light toning/smudging to the opposite side of samples; textblock is solid.) .

Keywords: American Decorative Arts, Wallcoverings, Cooper-Hewitt, Wallpaper ; Cooper-Hewitt Wallcoverings ; ; Collections - American Decorative Arts


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