A bit of history...
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Since prehistory, men disliked exposed and undecorated walls and thought it was important to adorn the inside of their homes. In all civilizations, the upper classes used to decorate the walls of their houses with drapes, frescoes, wooden, leather and stucco coatings. During the medieval period, tapestries, hand-woven carpets characterised by pictorial designs, were brought to Europe by Arabs. They were successful and in few years tapestries were decorating all European courts. In a certain way, they are the most direct forerunners of wallpapers. |
| During the Middle Ages, paper, silk and spices
were imported from China. The paper itself, is a Chinese
invention althought was a western idea to paint paper panels for
decorating the house walls.
Until the diffusion of industrial machineries, material and paper were hand decorated or printed by well-manufactured (but impractical) artisan rolls. The decorated sheets where pasted or nailed on the walls. Finally, at the end of the 17th century, the sheets started to be pasted together to form a roll and so the first true wallpaper was created. |
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The introduction of paper rolls and the development of the machinery have revolutionised the production contributing to the success of the wallpaper that, like clothes, started to follow the cultural and artistic fashion of its time.
Today the technical development gives the possibility of choosing among a very wide range of styles and collections, and gives the opportunity of decorating all walls in the most pleasant way, giving them the right luminosity and warmth.
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