Block-printed panoramic wallpapers were developed in early 19th century France and called: Papiers Peints Panoramiques - the name that de Gournay uses today. This genre continued the decorative painting tradition of ornamental panels that pre-dates the French Revolution. With designs spanning the exotic, historic, mythical, topographical and monumental, wealthy clients could opt to escape from reality, bring the beauty of nature into the interior or to surround themselves with a particular epoch, historical event or geographic location.
de Gournay has developed some designs in-house including Early Views of India, which is based on Thomas & William Daniel's aquatints published in A Voyage to India by Way of China and Views of the Holy Land I and which is based on David Roberts' lithographs published in The Holy Land and Syria, Idumea, Egypt, Nubia.
Other designs such as Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, Les Rives du Bosphore, Telemachus and La Chasse de Compiegne were designed for manufacturers such as Jacquemart, Dufour and Velay. Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique, one of the first Papiers Peints Panoramiques designs ever produced, was created by Jean Gabriel Charvet for Dufour in 1804.
de Gournay is happy to create new designs for you or to reproduce old designs that are no longer being block-printed in France.
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