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Duro, NK

Wallpaper
1976 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Specimen of wallpaper; Colour machine print, on paper.

Within Duro, NK, a pattern book containing 93 specimens (E.562-654-1977), including different colourways, of various formal patterns, and some nursery papers; each stamped on the back with manufacturer's name and serial number; the papers by named designers shown in photographs of contemporary settings interleaved in the volume; bound in paper, with a plastic spine.

Object details

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Object type
TitleDuro, NK (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Colour machine print, on paper
Brief description
Specimen of wallpaper; Colour machine print, on paper; Within 'Duro, NK', a pattern book containing 93 specimens (E.562-654-1977); Produced by Duro; Sweden; 1976.
Physical description
Specimen of wallpaper; Colour machine print, on paper.

Within Duro, NK, a pattern book containing 93 specimens (E.562-654-1977), including different colourways, of various formal patterns, and some nursery papers; each stamped on the back with manufacturer's name and serial number; the papers by named designers shown in photographs of contemporary settings interleaved in the volume; bound in paper, with a plastic spine.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 30cm
  • Size of volume width: 22cm
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
(Stamped on the back with manufacturer's name and serial number.)
Credit line
Given by Duro
Object history
Given by Duro.
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.576-1977

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Record createdJune 2, 2009
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