It?s so pretty Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between rounding up historic homes on the market and answering questions we?ve always had about older structures.
For the past few weeks, we've been indulging our love of scenic and chinoiserie wallpaper, learning about its history and how it is restored. Unlike grand Beaux-Arts mansions and genteel Georgian brick houses, though, these wallpapers are elements of the past that are still being produced and incorporated into design schemes today.
If you want to get in on the panoramic action, how should you best go about doing that" That?s what we?ll be exploring today.
If you?re in the market to buy antique wallpaper, be prepared to search high and low. "All the early wallpapers are gone?they?ve completely disappeared," says Suzanne Lipschutz, founder of vintage wallpaper purveyor Secondhand Rose. "I have some wallpaper from 1880 and 1910. I keep them humidified, but many [rolls] have disintegrated." Lipschutz, whose customers range from private clients to the set designers of American Hustle, started into the wallpaper business after falling in love with old designs that she uncovered while renovating a house in upstate New York. She went on to explain that while she still finds European wallpaper from the 1960s and 1970s, she most often comes across papers printed in the 1990s that recall the patterns of the ?30s and ?40s.

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