The pattern of this screen printed wallpaper is interpreted from one of the many carved Chinese doors in Tony Duquette’s Beverly Hills house, Dawnridge. Duquette loved printed patterns with borders and was forever cutting them up and sewing the borders together, using them for chair skirts and valances or gluing borders all around the room to create heightened architectural interest. Xanadu captures the pattern of the original carved openwork lacquer doors in a panel print that is bordered on the sides with a classic fretwork frieze, in a palette that ranges from soft to bold hues and includes a cobalt blue-and-coral red colorway that’s adapted from the original. The printed fretwork border that lines the sides of the paper may be trimmed off and used to edge the walls in a room papered with the main design. A coordinating linen print of the same name is offered for additional decorative possibilities.
