Peeling Back the Years: Chinese Wallpaper at Woburn Abbey

The discovery of eighteenth century Chinese wallpaper buy conservators at Woburn Abbey is now the subject of an exhibition…Peeling Back the Years. The exhibition covers Woburn’s two distinct periods of Chinoiserie in both the house and garden. The recently discovered mid-18^th century wallpaper fragments in the family, private and State apartments were amongst the earliest Chinese wallpapers made for the European market, and have not been seen since these rooms were redecorated in the late-18^th/early-19^th centuries.  The second wave of Chinoiserie decoration in the early-19^th century shows how taste and designs changed.

More on the long lost wallpaper here

Chinese white male pheasant on a rock amongst tree peonies; detail from Chinese wallpaper, 1752