24 Feb Six architectural wallcoverings to build a scheme around
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in The Edit
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- Full of intricate geometric detail, the architecture of the Ottoman empire is celebrated in this ‘Bursa’ wallcovering from Pierre Frey, based on a mid-16th-century miniature of a courtly scene
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- Zoffany mined its mid-century archives for this ‘Columns’ wallcovering, which depicts neat rows of Corinthian columns and was based on a 1956 original drawn by Robert Nicholson
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- The master of impossible illusionistic buildings, artist MC Escher, was the originator of this ‘Cube’ wallcovering by Jannelli & Volpi, available from Altfield
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- Marvic Textiles’ classic ‘Les Vues de Paris’ wallcovering is from an original designed by Hippolytes Le Bas in 1818, and features vignettes of Parisian monuments
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- ‘Teeny Santorini’ is part of Villa Nova’s Picture Book collection of children’s fabrics and wallpapers, available from Romo. Designed by illustrator Christopher Corr, it depicts rambling Mediterranean houses and churches
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- ‘Wren Architecture’ by Cole & Son is a tribute to the work of Sir Christopher Wren, depicting the classical facade of Hampton Court Palace’s East Front and Fountain Court