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wallpaper
wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th cent. as an inexpensive substitute for costly hangings. The French developed marbled papers, introduced from the East via Italy and used at first for box coverings, into larger sheets for wall coverings and also made other papers in small designs. O... Read more
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen , 1902-71, Danish architect and designer. Attentive to detail, Jacobsen suited his buildings to the surrounding landscape. He chiefly designed private housing, particularly in Søholm. The Bellevue seaside resort (1930-35) and Copenhagen's Jespersen (1955) and Scandinavian Airlin... Read more
Cavan
Cavan , county (1991 pop. 52,796), 730 sq mi (1,891 sq km), N Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Cavan . The county is a hilly region of lakes (Lough Oughter chief among them) and bogs, and the climate is extremely damp and cool. Most of the soil is clay. The Erne is the principal river, and t... Read more
casein
casein , well-defined group of proteins found in milk, constituting about 80% of the proteins in cow's milk, but only 40% in human milk. Casein is a remarkably efficient nutrient, supplying not only essential amino acids, but also some carbohydrates and the inorganic elements calcium and phosphorus.... Read more
dextrin
dextrin any one of a number of carbohydrates having the same general formula as starch but a smaller and less complex molecule. They are polysaccharides and are produced as intermediate products in the hydrolysis of starch by heat, by acids, and by enzymes. Their nature and their chemical behav... Read more
silverfish
silverfish common name for primitive, wingless insects of the family Lepismatidae. The silverfish, which has two long antennae and three long tail bristles, is named for its covering of tiny, silvery scales. It develops directly in six or more molts into an adult about 1/2 in. (1.27 cm) long.... Read more
chinoiserie
chinoiserie , decorative work produced under the influence of Chinese art, applied particularly to the more fanciful and extravagant manifestations. Intimations of Eastern art reached Europe in the Middle Ages in the porcelains brought by returning travelers. Eastern trade was maintained during the ... Read more
Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, British designer, pioneer of modern industrial design, b. Scotland, He moved (1847) to London, where he studied (1847-54) at the Government School of Design. He began his career as a botanist, teaching and writing several books. Dresser contributed floral designs to O... Read more
Charles Percier
Charles Percier , 1764-1838, French architect. He won (1786) the Grand Prix de Rome, and in 1794 he became associated with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine . Napoleon appointed them as government architects, and this post lasted until the emperor's fall. In the development of the Empi... Read more
William Morris
William Morris 1834-96, English poet, artist, craftsman, designer, social reformer, and printer. He has long been considered one of the great Victorians and has been called the greatest English designer of the 19th cent. While at Oxford, Morris, along with his lifelong friend Edward Burne-Jon... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to ""wallpaper""

SIC 5231 Paint, Glass, and Wallpaper Stores
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 5231 PAINT, GLASS, AND WALLPAPER STORES This industry consists of...selling primarily paint, glass, and wallpaper, or any combination of these lines...Materials Dealers) 444120 (Paint and Wallpaper Stores) Industry Snapshot In 2000...
wallpaper
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition wallpaper was used in Europe in the 16th and 17th...or silk was probably first adapted to wallpaper c.1620 in France, but by the 18th...Papillon established in 1688 the first large wallpaper factory, where he made matching designs...
SIC 5198 Paint, Varnishes, and Supplies: Wholesale Distribution
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...distribute wholesale paints, varnishes, wallpaper, and supplies. Retail stores selling...classified in SIC 5231: Paint, Glass, and Wallpaper Stores. According to the Standard Industrial...Supplies Wholesalers) 444120 (Paint and Wallpaper Stores) The paint, varnish and supplies...
New Brunswick: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...lock's waterfall, led to the rapid rise of industry. A wallpaper factory and a rubber plant were founded. By 1860, the population...Modern Industry By the early twentieth century, the rubber and wallpaper industries had begun to wane, but New Brunswick had welcomed...
William Morris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and crafts ). He made carvings, stained glass, tapestries, carpets, wallpaper, chintzes, and furniture. Today he is especially known for his fabric and wallpaper designs, gracefully elaborate all-over patterns usually based on floral...
SIC 5251 Hardware Stores
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...Establishments that specialized in a particular line of hardware, such as paint or wallpaper stores, were classified in SIC 5231: Paint, Glass & Wallpaper Stores. NAICS Code(s) 444130 (Hardware Stores) Industry Snapshot Hardware remained...
Erik Satie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...isolated phrases repeated over and over, like the pattern of wallpaper. In the program he stated, "We beg you to take no notice...accompanied by music that alternates between two neutral, "wallpaper" compositions. Socrate (1919), for four solo sopranos...
Mold
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...cause cancer, particularly of the liver. Another curious effect of mold is related to old green wallpaper. In the nineteenth century, wallpaper of this color was prepared using compounds of arsenic, and when molds grow on this substrate they...
Morris, William
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...a collection of decorators and designers influenced by medieval craftsmanship. Morris is perhaps best remembered for his wallpaper designs, which anticipated art nouveau in their use of the S-curve. In the 1880s he became interested in socialism, writing...
Gilman, Charlotte (Anna) Perkins
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Influence (1903). She wrote several novels, but is best remembered for her disturbing short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, published in May 1892 in the New England Magazine . It chronicles the descent into madness of a young mother...

Dictionary entries related to ""wallpaper""

wallpaper
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing wallpaper In a graphical user interface (GUI), the pattern on those parts of the screen outside the desktop . The wallpaper can be chosen from those supplied with the GUI or can be provided by the users. Small repeated patterns or screen-filling...
paper
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...a newspaper. ∎  wallpaper. ∎  (usu. papers...tr. ] 1. (often be papered ) apply wallpaper to (a wall or room): the walls were...over ) cover (a hole or blemish) with wallpaper. ∎  ( paper over...
decoration
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...ornament: Christmas decorations. ∎  the application of paint or wallpaper in a room or building. ∎  the paint or wallpaper applied. 2. a medal or award conferred as an honor.
Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...1918. One of his most interesting designs is the Sanderson Wallpaper Factory, Chiswick (1902), with its bold piers and glazed...no qualms about using machinery (e.g. to reproduce his wallpaper designs), he actually detested the International style...
pattern
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...subsequent study. ∎  a sample of cloth or wallpaper. • v. [ tr. ] 1. [usu. as adj. ] ( patterned...decorate with a recurring design: rosebud patterned wallpapers violet-tinged flowers patterned the grassy banks...
Burchfield, Charles
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...American painter, mainly in watercolour. In 1921 he settled permanently in Buffalo, where he worked as head designer in a wallpaper factory until he was able to devote himself full-time to art in 1929. Burchfield's work divides into three clear phases...
linocut
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...linoleum and to the print so made. Linoleum was invented in the 1860s, but it was not used for printing (in the manufacture of wallpaper) until the 1890s. The technique is essentially a development of the woodcut , the earliest of printmaking methods, but...
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...including sociology, literature, political science, economics, and women's studies. Her best-known volume is The Yellow Wallpaper (1892), written after her nervous breakdown in 1885. It can be taken as a semi-autobiographical record of psychiatric...
print room
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture print room. Interior decorated with prints (topographical engravings, etc.) arranged and stuck to the walls, surrounded by decorative painted or printed frames of wallpaper.
Magritte, René
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...worked in a precise, scrupulously banal manner (a reminder of his early days of his career when he made his living designing wallpaper and drawing fashion advertisements) and he always remained true to Surrealism. Iconographically he had a repertory of obsessive...

Thesaurus entries related to ""wallpaper""

paper
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...the paper was peeling off the walls synonyms : wallpaper, wallcovering.   4. a three-hour paper...verb  we papered the walls synonyms : wallpaper, hang wallpaper on. phrase: on paper   1. he put his...
decorate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...enhance, grace, prettify; festoon, garland, bedeck.   2. he started to decorate his home synonyms : paint, wallpaper, paper; refurbish, furbish, renovate, redecorate; informal do up, spruce up, do over, fix up, give something a facelift...
pattern
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus pattern • noun   1. the pattern on the wallpaper synonyms : design, decoration, motif, marking, ornament, ornamentation. See table.   2. the patterns of ant behavior...
peel
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...to peel the veneer synonyms : trim (off), peel off, pare, strip (off), shave (off), remove.   3. the wallpaper was peeling synonyms : flake (off), peel off, come off in layers/strips. • noun  orange peel synonyms...
snip
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...off. • noun   1. make snips along the edge synonyms : cut, slit, nick, notch, incision.   2. snips of wallpaper synonyms : scrap, snippet, cutting, shred, remnant, fragment, sliver, bit, piece.
tinge
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English tinge • verb   1. wallpapers tinged with silver synonyms : color, tint, shade, dye, stain, suffuse, imbue.   2. admiration slightly tinged with envy synonyms : flavor, color, suffuse, imbue.
hang
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...send to the gallows, put the noose on, send to the gibbet, gibbet, execute; lynch; inf. string up.   4. hang wallpaper synonyms : stick on, attach, fix, fasten on, append, paste, glue, cement.   5. walls hung with tapestries...
jarring
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus jarring • adjective  the striped wallpaper and plaid curtains make a jarring combination | the portrait of his dead children was a jarring reminder of his drunken driving...
paste
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...noun   1. blend the ingredients to a paste synonyms : purée, pulp, mush, mash, blend.   2. wallpaper paste synonyms : adhesive, glue, gum, fixative, mucilage. • verb  a notice was pasted on the door...
loud
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...vociferous, clamorous, insistent, vehement, emphatic, urgent, importunate, demanding.   5. loud colors/wallpaper synonyms : garish, gaudy, flashy, bold, flamboyant, lurid, glaring, showy, obtrusive, vulgar, tawdry, tasteless...

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Wallpaper: paste with taste
Newspaper article from: Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL); 1/27/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...wallpaper meant that wallpaper was now within the...with a huge variety of wallpapers. But, it was in the Roaring '20s that wallpaper really became the rage...wonderful and vast array of wallpapers out there is an ideal...people are afraid of wallpaper. This is actually...
On wallpapers and desktop themes
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 4/23/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...discuss how to import the wallpaper of your choice and...Basics of importing wallpapers: A wallpaper is an image or pattern...at http://www. wallpaper.as. Illustrations/Photos: Caption: Wallpapers and desktop themes...
Wallpaper no wallflower; It's back, providing drama, colour and texture.(Fashion)
Newspaper article from: The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 7/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...spring, Oprah declared that wallpaper is back. But is it really...you might want to consider wallpaper. That's because in the...PRESS / The grid patterned wallpaper in the home of designers John...home.; Photo: Contrasting wallpapers make a bedroom bold and beautiful...
Wallpaper's a winning choice when adding a splash of colour
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 11/5/2008; 700+ words ; ...How To Decorate With Wallpaper, which celebrates...designers, are bouncing wallpapers into the 21st century...you can achieve with wallpaper," Bernadette enthuses...beautiful flock and printed wallpapers as well as fabulous...Homebase's Palace wallpaper could make you feel...
Wallpaper is back -- here's how to make it work in your home
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 8/30/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...The colors and patterns in wallpaper can go a long way to create...difference in quality with home wallpapers. Low-quality wallpapers are difficult to handle and...them. Looking at a roll of wallpaper and trying to determine if...
Wallpaper hanger has gotten hang of job
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/5/2005; ; 700+ words ; Gary Hofmeister knows things about wallpaper. In 25 years of cutting it, gluing...You might think you can put up your own wallpaper. And you can. But not like Hofmeister...to see the delicately layered period wallpaper on the ceiling. Here's what your eyes...
Wallpapers To Go: Wallpaper Repair Tips.
PR Newswire; 9/24/1998; 565 words ; ...PRNewswire/ -- "Most wallpaper repairs can be...Installation Express by Wallpapers To Go. * Covering a hole in your wallpaper can be done by...that different wallpaper require different...contact your local Wallpapers To Go store or...
WALLPAPER REGAINING POPULARITY.(AT HOME)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/25/1996; 700+ words ; ...downsized decorating, wallpaper has acquired a...America, nobody wallpapers anymore,'' said...discourage (use of) wallpapers -- putting a skyline...thing that kills wallpaper is that everybody...modernists didn't want wallpapers on their walls...swinging back in wallpaper's favor. ...
Wallpaper: not the wallflower of the arts.(All Levels)
Magazine article from: School Arts; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...and seeing the history of wallpaper design either through a slide...clothesline. Handing out wallpaper samples for analysis about...emphasize how many modern wallpapers have a textural background...reflect such trends in our own wallpaper, our art production combines...
Stripping wallpaper easiest with remover solution.(House-Home)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/6/2005; 700+ words ; ...ignore the yellow-and-blue floral wallpaper the previous owners had in the kitchen...The problem: How do you remove the wallpaper without damaging the wall - or yourself...usually have no clue on how to strip wallpaper, says Gerald Bishop, owner of two wallcovering...