Seaver & McLellan, Jaffrey NH
Seaver & McLellan, Jaffrey NH
Monumental scenes on Main Street, customized masterworks: Enjoy Cay Dufour Views of Italy and the Bay of Naples panorama in light sepia range.
SIZE: 216 x 96 inches
Special thanks go to John and Billings Cay for permission to scan original Views of Italy at Rose Hill, as seen in AD.
Seaver & McLellan stage crossroads of cultures, where mid century molded fiberglass touchstones animate an outdoor-indoor sidewalk-salon while walkabout wallpaper invites you to join bicentennial perambulations and conversations among a 19th century Mediterranean pre-industrial time capsule of the world's busiest seaport then, Naples, art stranger than fiction steps away in the iconic art deco new Park Theatre Performing Arts Center. Quintessential New England brick mills now condos around the corner. Dufour drive-by views especially intriguing under lights framed by dark night.
"Dufour was the leading French maker of scenic wallpapers during the French Empire and Restoration periods. ... Known for fine engravings of views of Paris, London and Constantinople..."--Wendy Moonan, Antiques, NYT'92
The original Cay residence wall scenes BELOW, 80 inches high, renewed ABOVE.
Art historians and curators arrive from near and far -- Manhattan, Hudson, Mount Vernon, Santa Barbara to Seaver & McLellan in Jaffrey NH to see these extremely rare antique French scenes, Views of Italy and the Bay of Naples in new facsimile editions, bicentennial wallpaper formerly seen only in palaces or historic house museums such as Winterthur, or Moffat-Ladd House in Portsmouth NH and the Cambridge Historical Society on Brattle Street.
Fine digital custom coloration and printing by Wallquest. Samples and estimates from Holly Alderman.
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