MoDA Reading List – Wallpaper History

A brief list of some of the key books on the history of wallpaper, compiled by staff at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Background

[Book] Hendon, Zoe.(2018) Wallpaper. Shire Library. Shire Publications, Oxford. London. Bloomsbury Publishing. [https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/23983].  Find on MDX Library Search

[Book] Hoskins, Lesley.(1994) The papered wall : the history, patterns and techniques of wallpaper. London. Thames and Hudson Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Hawksley, Lucinda.(2016) Bitten by witch fever: wallpaper & arsenic in the Victorian home. New York. Thames & Hudson Ltd/The National Archives Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Jackson, L. (2011) 20th century pattern design : textile & wallpaper pioneers. Rev. ed. London: Mitchell Beazley. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Oman, Charles and Hamilton, Jean.(1982).Wallpapers : a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London. Sotheby Publications in association with The Victoria and Albert Museum. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Silver Studio Collection. (1989) A popular art : British wallpapers, 1930 – 1960. London. Middlesex Polytechnic. Find it on MDX Library Search

Wallpaper explored by artists

[Book] De Salvo D. M. Massie A. Saunders G. & Wexner Center for the Arts. (1997). Apocalyptic wallpaper : robert gober abigail lane virgil marti and andy warhol. Wexner Center for the Arts Ohio State University ; Distributed by Distributed Art.

[Book] Saunders G. Heyse-Moore D. Keeble T. & Whitworth Art Gallery. (2010). Walls are talking : wallpaper art and culture. University of Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery ; KWS.

Wallpaper within interiors

[Article] Dyer, S. (2018) ‘Masculinities, Wallpaper, and Crafting Domestic Space within the University, 1795-1914’, Nineteenth-Century gender studies., 14(2). Find it on MDX Library Search

[Chapter] Dyer, S. (2021) Object in Focus. A Wallpaper Sandwich: Comfort in the Student Room in 19th-Century Cambridge. In: Jon Stobart (ed.), The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), pp. 208-213. [https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350092983.0023] Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Saunders, Gill.(2002) Wallpaper in interior decoration. London. V&A Find it on MDX Library Search

[Article] Wendy,Andrews; James W. P.,Campbell.(2021) How wallpaper archives contribute to our understanding of historic building interiors Journal of Architectural Conservation. Journal of Architectural Conservation, 27 (1-2) pp 66-83 .  [https://doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2021.1923911] Find on MDX Library Search

[Article] Skipper, L. (2016) ‘The evolution of wallpaper interior design schemes in a commercial setting: the interiors of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (Midland Grand Hotel), London 1870s–1980s’, Journal of design history. [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epw039. Find it on MDX Library Search