Books
Death by Wallpaper: The Alluring Arsenic Colors that Poisoned the Victorian Age
Lucinda Hawksley's book Bitten by Witch Fever chronicles the rise of poisonous pigments in the 19th century through the burgeoning British wallpaper trade.
Wallpaper
Art
The 19th-Century Lady Who Used Audubon's Birds for Wallpaper
In 1827, when Lady Isabella Hertford finally installed the hand-painted Chinese wallpaper the Prince of Wales had gifted her two decades earlier, she thought it didn't have enough pizzazz for her drawing room at Temple Newsam in Leeds, England.
News
More Than 6,000 Wallpaper Designs Digitized
Wallpaper has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions like New York's International Print Center and Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, and artists like Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst have even created their own designs.