Commercial Neoclassical

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Ornaments
ca. 1810-20
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

 

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Drapery
ca. 1810-12
block-printed and flocked wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Temple Scene
ca. 1785-90
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Figures
1787
block-printed wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Maidens arranging Fruit
ca. 1810
block-printed wallpaper dado
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Ornaments
ca. 1790
block printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous American Maker
Neoclassical Figures
1934
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Louis-Gustave Taraval after Louis Bosse
Stove Design in Neoclassical Style
ca. 1791
hand-colored etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Wheat Sheaves alternating with Leaves
ca. 1800-1820
block-printed wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Forms
ca. 1800-1820
block-printed wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
 Neoclassical Swans alternating with Lyres
ca. 1800
block-printed and flocked wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Elements
ca. 1800-1805
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Elements
ca. 1820-40
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Elements
ca. 1820
block-printed and flocked wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Imitation of Découpage
ca. 1800
block-printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous French Maker
Neoclassical Elements
ca. 1820
block-printed wallpaper frieze
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Ian Hamilton Finlay
Classical / Neoclassical
1987
screenprint
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

20 December 1945

    To one not interested in searching out objects there must have been the frightening, frustrated gloom that hangs over derelicts living and not living, there must have been it extremely in that cardboard St. Pancras Station.

    I thought of this as I nosed about – and the thought of the effect of the place on John and Eric made me hurry, turn away from things rather too unfeelingly.  I was hurrying and there seemed nothing there to redeem the squalor, to clutch at one for rescuing. 

    Then I walked down the last aisle and saw in the middle what looked at first like a not very remarkable early-to-mid-Victorian little couch – Récamier thickened and toughened and having developed turned stumpy legs instead of delicate out-sweeping Greek ones.  But what really held my glance when I looked nearer was the covering of the couch, the flat loose cushion and the round tailored sausage one.  They were all of tomato soup red horsehair, dirtied of course, but remembering its life of eighty, ninety, perhaps nearly a hundred years, really in wonderful condition.  And what a wonderful stuff too, this never before seen red horsehair, glistening like glass threads, rich and hard and heartless, built to wear people out, not be worn out by them.  The cushions made so stiffly and truly, everything about the couch showing solid worthiness, as much as any Victorian piece I had seen; and its ugly, Gothic, sharp parrot smartness simply calling out to be used, sat upon and loved. 

– from The Journals of Denton Welch (who was born in 1915, gravely injured in 1935, then wrote the journals between 1942 and his early death in 1948), edited by Michael De-la-Noy (1984)