Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Wallpaper from the Cooper-Hewitt Collection
August 12, 1980 – October 26, 1980
On view are some 150 Chinese, European, and American wallcoverings dating from the late17th to the early 20th centuries. A supplementary group of objects shows some ways wallcoverings have been used off the wall—on screens and windowshades and on bandboxes.
Handbook in preparation
Related book, Wallpaper in America, by Catherine Lyon, former Cooper-Hewitt curator
