Schumacher's Taliesin Line of Decorative Wallpaper

Book Description

Chicago: Bredemeier. Folio. H Linen... Fine.. (Chicago: E. W. Bredemeier & Co. Sample Books, circa 1955. Folio, tan and orange decorated and lettered linen. Fine copy of a scarce salesman's sample book for a line of wallpapers designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. With 26 wallpaper samples (four designs in six or seven colorways) and six pages of photographic plates. The wallpaper sold for $5.95 to $7.45 a roll, matched a line of fabric s also produced by Schumacher and coordinated with Wright's furniture for Heritage-Henredon. Six pages of photographic plates illustrate rooms with the products in use and demonstrate Wright's ideal o f the close relationship between architecture and decorative design. Hanks, Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, pp. 195-198: "Because of the delicate nature of the wallpapers, few large samples have survived and are considered rare today.".

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