FABRICS, WALLS & FLOORS
HAMILTON WESTON WALLPAPERS Specialists in historic, period and reproduction wallpapers
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nterior designer Georgina Hamilton and architectural historian Robert Weston founded Hamilton Weston Wallpapers in 1981 to focus on reproducing historic wallpapers in both their original and contemporary colourways. ‘We have always been particularly enthusiastic about historical designs, their origins and provenance and the motifs and colour combinations used,’ says Georgina. ‘We also love to create new wallpaper designs to commission – from artefacts brought to us by our clients as inspiration for new creations, such as maps, textiles and embroideries.’ The archive is a treasure trove of historic, unusual and period wallpaper fragments covering the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras – often discovered as a result of restoration work around the world – and it is these historic papers that form the basis of the company’s own Old Paradise wallpaper collection, recreated from original documents. The earliest design in the collection, the quirky Lambeth Saracen, dates back to 1690; the most recent is the 1960 On The Edge, which was produced for The Edge of Reason, the sequel film to Bridget Jones’ Diary. In fact, Hamilton Weston Wallpapers can frequently be seen on the big screen: recent film releases in which
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