Palladio Wallpaper
MoDA holds a series of wallpaper albums from the important post-war Palladio range.
The Palladio range was produced by Lightbown Aspinall between the 1950s and early 1970s. It represented a bold and experimental vision for post-war wallpaper.
More than fifty artists and designers were involved in creating the Palladio range, including Roger and Robert Nicholson, Audrey Levy, Terence Conran and Althea McNish. The Palladio range launched the careers of many young designers in the 1950s and 60s.
The papers in the Palladio range were lavish, screen-printed, artist designed wallpapers. They were aimed at architects working on large-scale interiors.
This research developed out of a wallpaper conservation project at MoDA, funded by the Association of Independent Museums.