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Wallpaper horizon blue wildflowers . 1860-70
Unknown workshop
180,00 €
The creation of this wallpaper is dated from the years 1860-1870. It decorates the walls of the living room on the ground floor of George Sand's house in Nohant and was hung there in June 1873. It is also the original wallpaper (while some pieces of Nohant have been decorated with many successive wallpapers). In this living room, there are many portraits of the ancestors of George Sand, including that of her illustrious grandfather, the Marshal of Saxe.
To bring new life and modernity to this wallpaper, Le Grand Siècle commissioned a photo shoot on the Nohant site. Our workshop then carried out a long and meticulous digital restoration.
Collection from the George Sand House (Nohant)
Photographic credit : @CMN/ Benjamin Gavaudo
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This wallpaper is unfortunately from an unknown manufacturer. However, we have a lot of information on wallpapers in the Nohant house. Except two cases, the wallpapers currently in place in George Sand's house in Nohant are all old. In the 1990's, they were studied during interior restoration campaigns. Heritage and Decorative Arts specialists carried out surveys and restored the damaged designs. In some rooms many successive layers were discovered: the new wallpapers were in fact most of the time hung on the old ones, testifying to the evolution of tastes of each era. These surveys and discoveries may have led to the removal of the wallpapers in place to seek a historical state close to that in which George Sand lived at the end of her life.
1860-70
George Sand invited many artists and friends to her house in Nohant: Frédéric Chopin of course, but also Franz Liszt, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Tourgueniev, Eugène Delacroix... The latter "had a childlike admiration for wallpapers". At the samples that George Sand selected during the embellishment of her house, he marveled in these terms: "These bouquets, these seedlings and these garlands of flowers (are) of such a powerful effect and 'such a sober work' (excerpt from "Le Théâtre des marionnettes de Nohant", George Sand, 1877). He was particularly soothed and inspired by the place, the nature, the flowers, the trees that Sand also loved so much. He had a taste for wallpapers and theater sets and didn't consider decorative arts as a secondary art, quite the contrary.
In 1875, a photographer from Châteauroux came to Nohant to photograph the living room, at the request of George Sand, who arranged the room a little for the occasion. She then had enlargements of this photo and offered them to her friends. This is a very revealing detail because the living room is the community room, the one where we spend the most time together, the room of shared memories... This photo is the only iconographic source that we know of the interior of the residence during George Sand's lifetime.
Our wallpapers are hung in 3 stages: the preparation of the wall, its pasting, and the hanging. The strips are hung edge to edge and from left to right in the order indicated on the assembly plan supplied with the rolls. To find out more, consult our Hanging instructions page.
Non-woven wallpaper 147g/ square meter
Manufacturing time: 20 business days
Free shipping from €300
Made in France
Standard size: 1 roll of 65 x 250/350 cm
Owing to the manufacturing process, there could be small variations in colors from one production batch to the next. If possible, avoid buying different parts of the same design several weeks apart.
