The cultural history of wallpaper
With Michael Lech and Jude Stewart
Wallpaper, once dismissed as old and fusty, is having something of a resurgence of late. But what is its cultural history? Michael Williams from the ABC’s Blueprint for Living speaks with Michael Lech, curator at the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collections, Sydney Living Museums, and Jude Stewart, Chicago based design writer and journalist and author 'Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, and Other Graphic Patterns'.
Talks & webinars
Murphy Wallpaper Collection
The recent donation to the Caroline Simpson Library of thousands of wallpapers in the John and Phyllis Murphy Collection means that Museums of History NSW now has the largest holding of historical wallpapers in Australia
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Phyllis Shillito and her colour curriculum 1945–1979
This event focused on the colour curriculum of pioneering Sydney-based colour designer and educator Phyllis Shillito (1895–1980) of the 1940s to the 1970s
The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet
Hear the story of Rose de Freycinet, the first woman to write an account of a global circumnavigation, with Suzanne Falkiner
Historic colour in the home
The many sources in the Caroline Simpson Library that can bring colour to the homes of past, with Matthew Stephens