"Japonesque Wave", #WP88207-1, has been reproduced as a handprint in our Long Island City studio. Scalamandre was commissioned by Preservation Society of Newport County to recreate their late 19th century Angelo-Japonesque side paper for Mr. Bell's dressing room walls of the Isaac Bell House, circa 1883.
The house represents the zenith of 19th century America's search for a national style. Blending English Queen Anne with New England colonial and Oriental design influences, the architects, Mckim, Mead and Whit, create a rallying point for a new "vernacular" style that came to be known as the shingle style. Stanford White was the primary architect in charge of both the exterior and the interiors.
The Japonisme style wave side paper reveals colors of metallic gold lines with round specs of earthen red on an ochre ground. A criticle wallpaper fragment for color was dicovered behind a gas fixture. |
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