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The interior of each frame is filled with a near-silver grey, and acanthus motifs within the remaining ground spiral gently, creating a shallow sense of depth. These are not plant motifs specific enough to be called flowers \u2014 they are better understood as simplified descendants of the arabesque and acanthus forms that recurred throughout 19th\u201320th century Western ornament. The black rosettes set at each crossing point where four leaves meet, and the small diamond motifs stamped at intervals throughout the grid, call to mind metal rivets or decorative nailheads.<\/p>\n\n
As all these elements overlap, the result is a hybrid impression \u2014 despite the material being nothing but paper, the viewer cannot quite decide whether this is tile, stone panel, plaster relief, or wrought iron. In a single sheet of wallpaper, structure and ornament, and the surface qualities of multiple materials, are simultaneously on display.<\/p>\n\n
2. The Lineage of the ‘Western Tile’ in 1960s Korean Ceiling Paper<\/h3>\n\n
In late 19th-century Britain and France, a grid-format diaper pattern \u2014 placing small flowers or scrolls within diamond or clover-shaped frames \u2014 was widely fashionable. At the same time, cement and mosaic tiles deployed similar grids, stars, and rosette compositions in repetition. During the Japanese colonial period, when Western decorative vocabulary entered Korea through Japanese mediation, these designs were translated into wallpaper, linoleum flooring, and wrapping paper \u2014 and the custom of covering hanok ceilings with dense geometric patterns became established in this era.<\/p>\n\n Entering the 1960s, after liberation and war, Korean manufacturers no longer simply reproduced imported designs wholesale \u2014 they began to consolidate and summarize that lineage in their own way. This wallpaper is precisely such a product of its historical moment. It retains the clover grid structure familiar from the colonial-era tile-style ceiling papers, while reducing the palette to a clean two-color print in black and grey. The Western quatrefoil motif, it should be noted, bears a striking resemblance to the juhwamun (\uc8fc\ud654\ubb38) \u2014 the persimmon-calyx pattern of the Joseon decorative tradition.<\/p>\n\n Produced as a two-color print on paper, the material itself is modest \u2014 yet the intent is clearly to create the effect, when viewed from below, of a ceiling in plaster relief or decorative tile evoking the lobby of a Western hotel or the interior of a theatre. This single sheet of ceiling paper is the outcome of multiple histories crossing and combining: Western ornamental vocabulary, the process of its absorption during the Japanese colonial period, and the image of the modern interior that 1960s Korea was aspiring toward.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 Gosate Archive. 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