#Wallpaper Category
Zoe Hendon: New book about Wallpaper
Wallpaper has been the backdrop to our homes for hundreds of years Wallpaper can make a home feel modern or traditional, and is one of the easiest ways to express personal taste. It has also had an important part to play in British homes, reflecting technological, economic and social change. Whether or not you have wallpaper […]
Loan: Hertford Museum’s ‘Kitsch’ Exhibition (2017)
A few of our wallpapers added to this examination of personal taste and why we are drawn to certain stylistic elements.
Katie Horwich: suburban exoticism
Artist Katie Horwich reveals in her own words how she found elements of the exotic in suburban North Finchley. When I was growing up in North Finchley, I think I was always looking for somewhere a bit more exciting to go. When I was a teenager I would always look out for the bright lights […]
Serena Dyer: Student style and a wallpaper sandwich
MoDA’s Curator, Serena Dyer, found herself fascinated by the wallpaper sandwich… In November 2003, wallpaper fragments from Peterhouse Cambridge were given to the museum. They were discovered during renovations of the college’s dorm rooms and gifted to the museum as a large slab of papers stuck together and scraped off a wall. Serena carried out more […]
The Highwayman in the Front Room
Find out what happened when Dick Turpin galloped into Penge...
Felicity Ford: Sonic Wallpapers
The Sonic Wallpapers project asked “What does this wallpaper sound like to you?” Sound artist Felicity Ford brought a new auditory approach to MoDA’s wallpaper collection, asking what it would be like if we decorated our homes with sounds. The result was a series of audio pieces to accompany a number of MoDA’s wallpapers, each […]