Tag: Isidore Leroy

Fill your powder room with 18th century looking people all in different colorways but dressed the same. “Marquise” ou “Fais ce que dois” 1928-1929 wallpaper mockups in different colorways from Isidore Leroy, makers of fine wallpaper since 1842.

“Marquise” ou “Fais ce que dois” wallpaper mockup in nine colors. 1928-1929. French. Gouache on paper. Robert Mahais, illustrator. Société Isidore Leroy. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney. Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/in/imageReader.xhtml?id=ark:/73873/pf0000847772/0001&ark=/ark:/73873/pf0000847772/0001

“Marquise” ou “Fais ce que dois” wallpaper mockup in nine colors. 1928-1929. French. Gouache on paper. Robert Mahais, illustrator. Société Isidore Leroy. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney. Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000847772/0002?

“Marquise” ou “Fais ce que dois” wallpaper mockup in nine colors. 1928-1929. French. Gouache on paper. Robert Mahais, illustrator. Société Isidore Leroy. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney. Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF. https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0000847772/0003?

The description with these on Gallica BnF states that the original drawings for these mockups was cited in The Renaissance of French art, August and September 1928; Living Art, September 28; wallpapers and stains, March and August 1928; Advertising in Illustration, 1929. The same drawings also won a fourth prize in the competition organized by the Société Isidore Leroy in 1928. Visit Isidore Leroy here. https://us.isidoreleroy.com/