The RISD Museum highlights the fragile beauty and striking designs of centuries-old examples of wallpaper from the collection of a French-American couple, purchased in 1934.

The photography and essays in Brutalist Paris are underpinned by five years of research into modernist architecture in the French metropolis ... Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since ...

or architectural elements it imitates.” A fragment of antique wallpaper, Greer suggests, is precious enough to frame and hang as art.