Wallpaper was a popular decorating item in Victorian Aspen. Shops advertised new shipments as soon as they arrived. Patterns and colors for decorating walls achieved as much attention as did fashions ...

A historic Queen Anne-style home in Escondido, Calif., has long been associated with innovation—most recently for its interior decoration, and in its earliest days for attracting some of the ...

Historian Hawksley (Queen Victoria’s Mysterious Daughter) delivers an unnerving account of an unexpected killer in the elaborately decorated homes of Victorian England: arsenic-laced wallpaper. The ...

The vibrant green pigments that 19th century artist William Morris used in the wallpapers he created for the Victorian bourgeoisie may have been slowly poisoning his well-to-do customers -- and he ...

A new book by Thames & Hudson explores the lethal popularity of arsenic-based wallpapers in the 19th century. Wallpaper might be an interior design trend that is coming back into style, but no matter ...

Waco interior designer Claude Barron, who is steeped in Victorian decorative arts, says that in those times, it was quite common to wallpaper the fireplace panel only. Barron explained: “In those days ...

As if there weren’t enough deadly things to worry about in the 1880s, what with all the infectious diseases lurking in every cough, the Boston Globe began publishing articles warning the public that ...

EGREMONT — "The day was dull, the light was grey and the bold patterns in the drawing room were forming into a storm." The wallpaper of the Braithwite house holds many secrets. For Lucy Braithwite, ...

“Initially, it took us a few to months to feel like we didn’t live in a hotel,” Julie Anne Moore, one of the current owners, told the WSJ. “It’s a museum-quality house.” The living room Ollie Paterson ...

When faced with the redesign of a Victorian townhouse, most architects would be tempted to go for a typical open-plan floorplate; not Edmonds + Lee Architects. The San Francisco-based firm decided to ...