| Event type: | Monthly meeting |
| Date: | Mon 9 Sep 2024 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: | St Margaret’s United Reformed Church, N3 1BD |
© Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University
Often dismissed as ephemera, wallpaper is in fact a crucial contributor to the history of design. The growth of the wallpaper industry encompasses fashion, taste, society, technology – and the determined attempts to keep the householder buying. In this richly illustrated talk, speaker Lucy Ellis will show us beautiful hand-painted 18th-century Chinese papers and chintzy florals, Jazz Age geometrics and 1970s flower power designs.
Lucy is a freelance writer, editor and speaker. Following a varied career encompassing fashion buying and product development for high-street chains, museums and charities, Lucy researched the wallpaper industry in the 1920s and 1930s for her MA degree in 2019. Lucy is a trustee of the Wallpaper History Society and a tour guide at the Fashion and Textile Museum, and she has written articles on design history for Art UK.