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Pebbledash

Wallpaper
1977 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of 'Pebbledash' wallpaper; Colour machine print, on paper.

Within Designers Guild Wallpaper Collection No 1, a pattern book containing 88 specimens (E.1092-1180-1977), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on a label affixed to the back; bound in boards, with the ‘Blockflower’ pattern.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Pebbledash (manufacturer's title)
  • Designers Guild Wallpaper Collection No 1 (series title)
Materials and techniques
Colour machine print, on paper
Brief description
Specimen of 'Pebbledash' wallpaper; Design by Kaffee Fassett and Tricia Guild; Colour machine print, on paper; Within 'Designers Guild Wallpaper Collection No 1', a pattern book containing 88 specimens (E.1092-1180-1977); Produced by The Designers Guild, London; England; 1977.
Physical description
Specimen of 'Pebbledash' wallpaper; Colour machine print, on paper.

Within Designers Guild Wallpaper Collection No 1, a pattern book containing 88 specimens (E.1092-1180-1977), including different colourways; each with title, serial number etc in letterpress on a label affixed to the back; bound in boards, with the ‘Blockflower’ pattern.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 44cm
  • Size of volume width: 37cm
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
(Title, serial number etc in letterpress on a label affixed to the back.)
Credit line
Given by The Designers Guild
Object history
Given by The Designers Guild.
This design was also produced in fabric.
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
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.
Collection
Accession number
E.1169-1977

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Record createdMay 27, 2009
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