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A B O U T "DIGITAL CHIC” ®
- a new 'word of art'
'chic' - after French style,
'Très chic', 'très hip!'
very fashionable, smart
'digital' - 1. electronic imaging
and breakthrough printing
we use to preserve and
renew antique wallpaper
to share exemplars of the
finest scenic wallpaper in the
world with new audiences -
to give any room or hall
19th century perspectives
in museum quality design
on new touchable walls
LIKE SHRUBS IN FINE SILK,
THE OCCASIONAL SPECKS
AND GENTLE LINES AND
SHADINGS IN NEW PRINTED
SCENES ARE CHARACTERISTIC
OF THE FINEST ARTISANS'
HAND CARVING, PAINTING,
AND WOOD BLOCK PRINTING
...
WHICH GIVE THE SCENES
THEIR DRAMATIC BEAUTY,
AURAS OF HORIZONS, AND
PATINA OF CENTURIES
SPRING SPECIALS
APRIL - Sepia Panels
MAY - Framed Canvas
JUNE - Organic Cotton
WALLQUEST color
separation artists
and digital printers
have renewed and
custom printed all
new collections of
digital chic antique
scenic wallpapers,
well over 100 panels
for Holly Alderman
since 2013
"CULTURAL INNOVATION is
about investing in projects,
uses and media in order to
preserve and transmit our
heritage to everyone.
There is not one way
to see Versailles."
- Catherine Pegard
President, Chateau
de Versailles
" D I G I T A L " - new meaning:
- new paradigm, added value
and power to transcend
materiality, time, thought by
accelerated computers,
exponential technology,
fundamental disruption
never before imagined or
or witnessed, using tools
for intangible services in
cyber dimensions media
to share instant worldwide
sights and collaborations,
- old meaning: by hand
" A U R A "
"a unique phenomenon
of a distance, however
close it may be…"
- Walter Benjamin
'Art in the Age of
Mechanical
Reproduction'
" W A L L V I E W S "
- a new 'word of art'
1. both view and wall,
a provocative paradox
2. a triple-entendre
in panoramic digital chic,
Aura + Art + Architecture
= paradoxical provocations
3. a rare phenomenon
of perception unique
to scenic wallpaper,
in photos indiscernable,
visible only by walking
around a room to look
into scenic auras from
a variety viewpoints
near and far: horizons
stretch, ships set sail,
clouds shift, travelers
may at any moment
beckon to you as a
fellow figure forever
on a promenade --
seeing is believing
"GRISAILLE" (griz-i)
- from French, "gris"
means: all grays.
Decoration in tones
of a single color
especially gray.
Also monochrome
painting particularly
for large walls
for dramatic effect
of light and shade
and a pronounced
sense of three-
dimensionality.
Renaissance artists
used grisaille to
depict or imitate
relief sculpture
in paintings.
"SEPIA"
- Latinized Greek.
Brown or reddish-
brown color named
after the brown
pigment derived
from the ink sac
of the common
cuttlefish, named
Sepia, used for
writing, drawing,
and as a wash by
Leonardo da Vinci.
"DUFOUR ATELIER"
- Wendy Moonan,
in "Antiques: Scenic
Views, Even Indoors,
On Wallpaper" in the
NYTimes 2/28/98
"Romantic visions,
...these rare
wallpaper scenes
were created in
France in 1815
by the atelier
of Joseph Dufour
with over a thousand
hand cut wood blocks,
16 by 19 inches,
hand painted in
tones of gray and
brown (en grisaille,
and en sepia) and
hand printed on
rag paper panels.
...
"Joseph Dufour was
THE LEADING FRENCH
MAKER of scenic
wallpaper during
the French Empire
and Restoration
periods. Known for
fine engravings
of Paris, London
and Constantinople,
he produced a lot
of wallpapers after
1815 for export to
England and America."
"THE PANELS OPEN UP
a space because they
are landscapes with
the illusion of depth.
Put one in a small
room and it will
immediately give
the impression
that the room is
far bigger. Put
one in a dark
or narrow room
like a hallway and
it immediately gives
you the illusion
of air and light."
- Carolle Thibalt-Pomerantz
author, dealer, speaker
Paris and New York
@antiquewallpaper
2020
• BICENTENNIAL •
VIEWS OF ITALY
and the
Bay of Naples
CELEBRATION!
- details in 2019
"Scenic wallpaper
inspires designers
to dream their way...
not only into
a bygone era
but also into
a better one"
- Walter Benjamin
19th century Paris
Aldermans
in
Architectural Arts
since 1877
Holly Alderman
@aldermanarts
2018 Digital Chic
2013 Digital Wallpaper
2007 Digital Fabrics
2004 Digital Murals
National Academy
Mural Fellowship
HollyAlderman.com
1995 Public Art
TA, Design Science
Harvard College
Bissell Alderman FAIA
Architect, artist
(1912-1999)
1948 Alderman & MacNeish
Architects and Engineers
Central New England
WWII Medal of Freedom
Professor of Architecture
1935 MIT Architecture
George P.B. Alderman
Architect
(1862-1942)
1885 Alderman & Co.
Holyoke, New England
1877 Apprentice
Cass Chapman
Chicago
"Alderman" - n. Southern English: status
name from Middle English,
alderman, Old English
ealdorman, literally ‘elder’.
In medieval England an
alderman was a member
of the governing body of
a city or borough; also
the head of a guild.
- Dictionary of American
Family Names ©2013,
Oxford University Press
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by
Holly C. Alderman.
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