Guide to 20thCentury Wallpaper
· Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. may have dissed wallpaper in The Decoration of Houses (1897), but 20thcentury homeowners were eager to perk up Victoriangloomy or blankasaslate walls with fresh new wallcoverings—especially since an entire room could be papered for pennies. Never before had fashions in wallpaper been in a position to change so quickly. "Up to about 1908, .