Wallpaper
Maker & role
Unknown, Maker
Production date
1960s
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Object detail
Measurements
0 - Whole, L: 56 x Diam: 6cm (L: 560 x Diam: 60mm)
Credit line
Gift, Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, 2008
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Wallpaper, striped design, 1960s
Description
This wallpaper is part of a large tranche of over 160 designs (comprising full rolls, part-rolls and lengths) donated by specialist home furnishing retailers Chee Soon & Fitzgerald (CSF) in 2008. CSF were at the vanguard of the wallpaper revival in Australia in the mid to late 1990s. Their promotion of wallpaper predates the revival of Florence Broadhurst's designs and came at a time when interior decoration was dominated by white walls and 'clean surfaces'. The wallpapers are of various places of manufacture and represent a period from 1950 to the 1980s. Approximately 40% of the collection was acquired by CSF from older Sydney interior designers; the remainder came from markets, second-hand stores and private donors.
This wallpaper is provenanced to Robert Lloyd and interior design firm, Tinker Tailor Interiors. Robert W. Lloyd was born in Adelaide in 1927. He became involved in the interior furnishing and decorating business at the age of sixteen and began his career making lampshades for Paul Carlyle in Rundle Street, Adelaide. After working briefly for Reg Riddell in Little Collins Street Melbourne, Robert moved to Sydney around 1947 and started a long career working for the furnishing department of McCathie’s department store, Stephen Kalmar, Merle du Boulay and Mary White (all leading lights in the furnishing, interior decorating and furniture design business of the day). But, it was with Miss Del Agnew, and her business Tinker Tailor Interiors, that Robert had the longest association and it is from this period that the important collection of wallpapers now held in the CSL&RC are provenanced. The CSL&RC also hold a significant number of trimmings and furnishing textiles provenanced to Robert Lloyd and Tinker Tailor Interiors (acquired 2004).
This wallpaper is provenanced to Robert Lloyd and interior design firm, Tinker Tailor Interiors. Robert W. Lloyd was born in Adelaide in 1927. He became involved in the interior furnishing and decorating business at the age of sixteen and began his career making lampshades for Paul Carlyle in Rundle Street, Adelaide. After working briefly for Reg Riddell in Little Collins Street Melbourne, Robert moved to Sydney around 1947 and started a long career working for the furnishing department of McCathie’s department store, Stephen Kalmar, Merle du Boulay and Mary White (all leading lights in the furnishing, interior decorating and furniture design business of the day). But, it was with Miss Del Agnew, and her business Tinker Tailor Interiors, that Robert had the longest association and it is from this period that the important collection of wallpapers now held in the CSL&RC are provenanced. The CSL&RC also hold a significant number of trimmings and furnishing textiles provenanced to Robert Lloyd and Tinker Tailor Interiors (acquired 2004).
Accession number
L2008/153
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