Art & Exhibitions ‘Exceptionally Rare’ French Wallpaper Is the Focus of an Expansive New Museum Show French, View of Venice Wallpaper, ca. 1840. Image courtesy of RISD Museum, Rhode Island.

The RISD Museum highlights the fragile beauty and striking designs of centuries-old examples of wallpaper from the collection of a French-American couple, purchased in 1934.

Using its collection of French wallpaper made from the 1770s to the 1840s, likely the finest outside France, the RISD museum again shows us what a uniquely smart and inventive place it is.

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Chintz — although it might today be largely associated with twee or cutesy armchairs and wallpaper — is, in its true form, a fabric that was not only once highly prized the world over, and ...

For the reader, two characters obsessing over the wallpaper creates overlap, which means the domestic tension occasionally flags by comparison with the vivid, brutal chaos of Paris.