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Zandra

Wallpaper
1968 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of 'Zandra' wallpaper, a design featuring cubes, squares, stylised flowers and wavy lines, predominantly in black, with small areas of blue and orange, on a white ground; Silk screen print, on paper.

Removed from the 'Palladio 8' pattern book containing 105 specimens (E.5084-5188-1968), including different colourways, each with designer's name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; bound in plastic-covered boards.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Zandra (manufacturer's title)
  • Palladio 8 (series title)
Materials and techniques
Silk screen print, on paper
Brief description
Specimen of 'Zandra' wallpaper, a design featuring cubes, squares, stylised flowers and wavy lines, predominantly in black, with small areas of blue and orange, on a white ground; Design by Zandra Rhodes; Silk screen print, on paper; Removed from the 'Palladio 8' pattern book containing 105 specimens (E.5084-5188-1968); Produced by Sanderson-Rigg Ltd. Bridlington; England; 1968.
Physical description
Specimen of 'Zandra' wallpaper, a design featuring cubes, squares, stylised flowers and wavy lines, predominantly in black, with small areas of blue and orange, on a white ground; Silk screen print, on paper.

Removed from the 'Palladio 8' pattern book containing 105 specimens (E.5084-5188-1968), including different colourways, each with designer's name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back; bound in plastic-covered boards.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 50.8cm
  • Size of volume width: 50.8cm
Dimensions from: Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. 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, 1982.
Marks and inscriptions
(Designer’s name, name of pattern, serial number etc in letterpress on the back.)
Credit line
Given by Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd
Object history
Given by Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Oman, Charles C., and Hamilton, Jean. 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, 1982.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968. London: HMSO, 1969.
Collection
Accession number
E.5088-1968

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Record createdMay 19, 2009
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