Category: 1930

1930

A Gothic Garden — Medieval Visions in Japanese Colonial Wallpaper on the Korean Peninsula

Ogee arches, palmettes, dense ground textures, and two-color printing place this colonial-period wallpaper within the afterlife of European Gothic Revival ornament in…

1930

Silver Arabesque — One-Color Silver Pigment Wallpaper from 1930s Korea

A single silver pigment printed over a warm ground creates a dense arabesque of small flowers and vines, linking modern wallpaper to…

1930

When Neunghwa Paper Became Wallpaper — Auspicious Signs and Modernity in a 1930s Joseon Newlywed Room

This 1930s silver-pigment wallpaper transforms the embossed logic of Joseon book-cover paper into a modern printed surface for the newlywed room.

1930

Printed Paper Ceilings — East and West in a 1930s Japanese Ceiling Paper

A 1930s ceiling paper found in a modern hanok combines cracked ice, Greek key borders, four-petal flowers, and diamond forms into a…

1930

From Lyon to the Joseon Hanok: The Baroque Damask Scaled Down for the Ondol Room

1. A Design Lineage: Lyon’s Silk Blooms on Paper What first draws the eye in this wallpaper is the repeating small vase…