1960s Korean Vintage Wallpaper — Ipboon (original)

Ipboon was discovered in a 1937 hanok in Jangseong County, South Jeolla Province. It is a ceiling paper whose basic unit is an octagon-and-diamond interlocking grid — the characteristic structure of Victorian encaustic floor tile and early 20th-century linoleum. A thin yellow band and black outline ring each octagon; crossing triangles inside build toward a central star. A white vine-leaf medallion anchors each diamond. The defining quality of this wallpaper is its spatial inversion: pattern grammar that Western architecture placed underfoot was lifted to the ceiling of a Korean room. What had been a floor tile in a London or Brussels interior became a ceiling paper in a Joseon hanok — and the effect, lying beneath it, is of a Western carpet or tiled floor suspended overhead. The dancheong-adjacent palette of blue-green, yellow, and black gives the geometry an additional layer of cultural translation, reading simultaneously as a Korean temple ceiling and a Victorian public building floor. GOSATE’s reproduction digitally restores the original pattern, printed on premium non-woven base paper manufactured in Sweden.   Roll size : 50cm by 10M Material : Non-woven paper Made in Sweden, Design in Korea