Wallpaper
Maker & role
NOBILIS S.A. (estab. 1928), Manufacturer
Production date
circa 1957
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Object detail
Title
'Music Box'
Production place
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 87 x W: 53cm (H: 870 x W: 530mm); Pattern Repeat, H: 70 x W: 53cm (H: 700 x W: 530mm)
Credit line
Gift, 2003
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Wallpaper fragment, "Music Box" design, c1957
Description
Following her first overseas trip in 1949, Marion Best began to import a range of the latest and most modern French furnishings including ceramics, lighting, fabrics and wallpapers. Through her company, Best and her design team decorated a large number of interiors around Sydney with the latest in European design. Nobilis wallpapers were particular favourites with more conservative clients, and were used for much of the 1950s and 60s often with co-ordinated fabrics. A bedroom decoration in Pymble, Sydney, by Marion Best Pty Ltd, photographed for Australian House & Garden in May 1965, includes the same wallpaper as this sample with co-ordinated blinds, bedspread, bed curtains and valance. Such co-ordinates were ahead of their time, not reaching a peak of popularity until the mid 1970s by which time a number of manufacturers were producing matching wallpapers and fabrics.
Used in one of two large bedrooms, with matching curtains, of Coolabah, a house in Wahroonga, Sydney. One of eleven wallpapers retrieved from the house, many of which were installed by Marion Best Pty Ltd as part of a larger decorative scheme c1957. When the wallpaper was removed in 2002 prior to renovation of the house, it was one of the few survivals of the 1957 re-furnishing.
Used in one of two large bedrooms, with matching curtains, of Coolabah, a house in Wahroonga, Sydney. One of eleven wallpapers retrieved from the house, many of which were installed by Marion Best Pty Ltd as part of a larger decorative scheme c1957. When the wallpaper was removed in 2002 prior to renovation of the house, it was one of the few survivals of the 1957 re-furnishing.
Accession number
L2003/88
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