Wallpaper

Maker & role
NOBILIS S.A. (estab. 1928), Manufacturer
 Production date
circa 1973
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Object detail

Title
Reine des Pres
Production place
France
Collection
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
Measurements
1 - Roll, L: 34.9 x W: 57cm (L: 349 x W: 570mm); 2 - Fragment, L: 162.2 x W: 56.3cm (L: 1622 x W: 563mm); Pattern repeat, L: 60cm (L: 600mm)
Signature & marks
Printed on selvedge: " 'REINE DES PRES' dessine par Suzanne Fontan pour NOBILIS a Paris. Made in France."
Credit line
Gift, through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, Warwick and Robin Lewarne, 1991
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Wallpaper, "Reine des Pres" design, circa 1973
Description
This wallpaper is part of a large collection of furnishing samples supplied by interior designers, Marion Best Pty Ltd, for redecoration of a house in Neutral Bay, Sydney, between 1964 and 1976. The wallpaper was installed in a young girl's bedroom c1973. Marion Best Pty Ltd often supplied clients with sample boards which comprised small samples such as wallpaper, curtain and upholstery fabric, carpet, blinds, and paint colours, which formed the basis of a proposed room furnishing scheme. A 1973 sample board in the collection for 'Bedroom 3' includes this wallpaper in two different colourways.

The first appearance of this wallpaper in Australia appears to have been at the 1958 French Fair in Melbourne. A rendition in a green colourway appeared in the Australian Home Beautiful for October 1958.
Accession number
L91/15-34.1:2

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