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Glamorous Gracie

or more than 125 years, Gracie has been one of the most prestigious brands in the design industry, renowned for their hand-painted wallpapers. offers a stunning look walks readers through spaces and rooms that feature a variety of sumptuous Gracie wallpapers, from atmospheric, panoramic landscapes that depict vibrant city streets and transporting seascapes to wallpapers that shimmer with metallic details and add modern touches to traditional designs to the lush, floral wallpapers that embody the grandeur and elegance that have defined the Gracie brand since its earliest days. Across 320 pages of rich full-color photographs, readers will revel in the details and materials that make Gracie designs so special, from Papier Chinois and silk to wrinkled rice paper that evokes a sense of age to the glazes that create a vintage patina. This volume shares the history of the paper and painting styles that Gracie uses to this day as well as the early seeds of the family business and how Gracie’s timeless designs have endured across decades and generations.

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