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
![Vivienne Chaffer : Colour [interior design student workbook]](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/b09f1f0c5831414a9ae3b0baf97b548d.jpg)
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
![Watercolour of a group of people landing ashore](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/9401b885ff58462af9bc520138c61325a99b8054-1349x977.jpg?rect=213,433,947,544&fit=max&auto=format)
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
![A colour chart of ready-mixed paints](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/769f66b93ca6c192d4539b5dfbbe7b8635cd294b-2000x1536.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
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