The Art of Gracie: Handpainted Wallpapers, Timeless Rooms

A glorious celebration of Americas most storied handpainted wallpaper company, family owned for 125 years, featuring dozens of rooms by todays top interior designers.The story of Gracie wallpaper, founded in 1898 and still family owned by the sixth generation, is one of the great untold stories of American interior design. Best known for their exquisitely detailed designs, Gracie papers have been installed at the White House and many of Americas most notable homes. They are a goto resource for interior designers including Mark Sikes, Summer Thornton, Ellie Cullman, Brooke Giannetti, Suzanne Kasler, Michael S. Smith, Alexa Hampton, Alex Papachristidis, and Amanda Lindroth, and Gracie can be found in the homes of celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Cameron Diaz.This volume, featuring hundreds of color photographs of contemporary rooms by leading interior designers, shows the range not only of the papers themselvesfrom beautiful florals and birds to panoramic landscapes of American folk scenes and French pastoral hillsides to hunting and maritime scenesbut also the imaginative ways they can be used to create truly transporting spaces. Designs in every imaginable color, from metallics to lush greens and cobalt blues to dramatic reds and blacks, show that with Gracie, any room in the home can become a true, custom work of art.Exquisite production detail on this volume, including 4color printed page edges and a cover design custompainted by Gracie exclusively for the book, will make this a musthave gift item that every interior design fan will want to display.