Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out rare 18th-century wallpaper for an ongoing restoration project.

It contains just under a hundred wallpaper samples, each of which is saturated with potentially dangerous levels of arsenic. The book is the work of Dr. Robert M. Kedzie, a Union surgeon during ...