WITH AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN different wall and ceiling papers in an unusu-
ally elaborate arrangement, a rather masculine Arts & Crafts den has sev-
eral panels from Schmitz–Horning ’s famed San-kro-mura ‘Automobile’
frieze. (The full treatment, 30" high, has six 60" panels and runs 30 linear
feet without repeat.) Its humorous vignettes showing the perils of “a mid-
winter tour of Southern California”—road racing, road rage, and road-trip
repairs—are an ambivalent commentary on life with the era’s new-fangled
phenomenon in personal transport.
Pictorial friezes, many of them imported from Europe, were popular
from about 1905 until the Great Depression. Intaglio-printed in durable
oil-based inks, these papers allowed for more colors and a finer gradation
of tone than did traditional wallpapers. Subjects tended toward historical
scenes, lush landscapes, and whimsical or quirky themes known as novel-
ty papers. Will we celebrate new technologies with digital patterns today?
Or has progress rudely dispensed with novelty decorative treatments, leav-
ing them, like that old horse and buggy, in the ditch? a —Bo Sullivan72 |ARTS & CRAFTS HOMES Winter 2017 BOLLING & COMPANY ARCHIVE
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From the catalog
“Modern Home
Decoration,” 1912
Apparently pastoral but with a
decidedly modern twist, the frieze
takes center stage in this highly
decorated period room.