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The McDonald Mansion

Check out these wonderful articles and photos detailing the careful restoration of the McDonald Mansion, courtesy of our friends at Rynerson O’Brien Architecture. First, the exterior: Next, check out the interior for some real eye-candy! Be sure to click on the links for the complete articles and all of the wonderful pictures!

Two great Victorian architects unite

Just a “teaser” post to give you a sneak peek at the Bruce J. Talbert room set available in a couple of weeks… But FIRST, our “inaugural” room was recently hung in Alameda in a historic Queen Anne home designed by the prolific American architect George F. Barber. Barber was enormously successful in marketing his [...]

Bradbury’s New and Exotic Persian Wallpaper!

Last Friday we officially released our new Persian Room Set of wall and ceiling papers and the response has been terrific! Sample kits are going out in the mail and calls have been coming in from all over, (even the folks at Disneyland are considering it for an installation)!  We’re thrilled, and among the attention [...]

St. James’s wallpaper

Having just seen a breathtaking installation of this paper I wanted to reprint this post from 2009 for the benefit of those readers who had not yet seen it.  It may answer some questions: Shortly after it’s establishment in 1861, Morris & Co. received a number of important secular commissions, one of which being the decoration [...]

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