Category: Interiors

Mural designs for every room in your home. You can pretend you are a Renaissance princess going up and down the stairs or Hera Queen of the Skies instructing the maid on table settings for the next banquet for the goddess. Chromolithographs from the 1890 folio “Plafonds et peintures murales” which was put together by decorative painter Ernest David and his friend and fellow painter F. Lamy. Published in Paris. Where else?

ANTICHAMBRE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie A. Janniot and Cie, Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. David. Image 8. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n8/mode/1up
PLAFOND RENAISSANCE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie A. Janniot and Cie, Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 10. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n10/mode/1up
ESCALIER. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie A. Janniot and Cie, Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Nouveaux modèles de Plafonds et Peintures murales par E. DAVID. Image 12. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n12/mode/1up
SALLE DE BAIN. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie A. Janniot and Cie, Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 16. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n16/mode/1up
TENTURE RENAISSANCE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie A. Janniot and Cie, Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 20. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n20/mode/1up
PORTE ORIENTALE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie F. Hermet, Paris – Orléans. lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 32. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n32/mode/1up
PLAFOND LOUIS XIV. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie F. Hermet, Paris – Orléans. lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 34. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n34/mode/1up

CROISEE MAURESQUE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie F. Hermet, Paris – Orléans. lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 40. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n40/mode/1up
MUR VESTIBULE. Ernest David, pinx. Imprimerie F. Hermet, Paris – Orléans. lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 52. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n52/mode/1up
PEINTURE MURALE ET PLAFOND. F Lamy, pinx. Imprimerie Bourgerie Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Nouveaux modèles de Plafonds et Peintures murales par F. LAMY. Image 52. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n64/mode/1up
PEINTURE MURALE ET PLAFOND DE SALLE À MANGER. F Lamy, pinx. Imprimerie Bourgerie Paris, lithographers. E E. Thézard fils, publishers, Editeur à Dourdan (Seine-et-Oise). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Nouveaux modèles de Plafonds et Peintures murales par F. LAMY. Image 74. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n74/mode/1up
CHEMINÉE DE CABINET (the captioning on this page is very faded out). Bibliothèque du Peintre en Bâtiment, Plafonds et Peintures Murales par E. DAVID. Image 80. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History New South Wales. CcO License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/David10636/page/n80/mode/1up

The interiors of houses (and a few other places) back when the early 1960s modern kind of chairs that you’d better hope have a table by them to put your drink on before you try to stand up. Mid-Century modern, I think from 1962. They are part of a set of images from the Swedish web archive Arkivkopia that are scanned and up on the Internet Archive.

Egen villa Interiör. Study or bedroom. Uppland, Stockholm, Danderyd, Djursholm (Sweden). ca. 1962. Swedish. Photograph. Probably photographed by Lena Margareta Böklin. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-0357
Karlskoga stadshotell och stadshus Interiör. ca. 1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-0345
Flerbostadshus Interiör. Bedroom, apartment house interior. ca. 1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-0432
Småstuga Interiör, Kitchen, cottage interior. ca. 1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-0646a
Arbetarbostäder, Radhus,Storviks Hammarby Interiör. Living room/dining area, workers’ housing townhouses, Storviks Hammarby, Sweden. ca. 1950s-1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-1546
Radhus Interiör med trappa. Townhouse stairs. ca. 1950s-1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-0511

 
Stathmosfabriken Interiör. Stathmos Factory Interior, restroom. ca. 1950s-1962. Swedish. Photograph. Photographer not given. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-1673
Egen villa Interiör.Living room or study. Uppland, Stockholm, Danderyd, Djursholm (Sweden). ca. 1962. Swedish. Photograph. Arkitektur- och designcentrum, publisher, contributed by Arkivkopia. via https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digmus-ark-ARKM.1962-101-1917