Decoration Interieure

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Papier-mâché (UK: PAP-ee-ay MASH-ay, US: PAY-pər mə-SHAY, French: [papje mɑʃe] – the French term "mâché" here means "crushed and ground") is a versatile craft technique with roots in ancient China, in which waste paper is shredded and mixed with water and a binder to produce a pulp ideal for modelling or moulding, which dries to a hard surface and allows the creation of light, strong and inexpensive objects of any shape, even very complicated ones. There are various recipes, including those using cardboard and some mineral elements such as chalk or clay (carton-pierre, a building material). Papier-mâché reinforced with textiles or boiled cardboard (carton bouilli) can be used for durable, sturdy objects. There is even carton-cuir (cardboard and leather) and also a "laminating process", a method in which strips of paper are glued together in layers. Binding agents include glue, starch or wallpaper paste. "Carton-paille" or strawboard was already described in a book in 1881. Pasteboard is made of whole sheets of paper glued together, or layers of paper pulp pressed together. Millboard is a type of strong pasteboard that contains old rope and other coarse materials in addition to paper. This composite material can be used in a variety of traditional and ceremonial activities, as well as in arts and crafts, for example to make many different inexpensive items such as Christmas decorations (including nativity figures), toys or masks, or models for educational purposes, or even pieces of furniture, and is ideal for large-scale production; Carton-pierre can be used to make decorative architectural elements, sculptures and statues, or theatre or film sets; papier-mâché has also been used to make household objects, which can become valuable if artistically painted (as many boxes and snuffboxes were in the past) or lacquered, sometimes with inlays of mother-of-pearl, for example. Large papier-mâché pieces, such as statues or carnival floats, require a wooden (or bamboo, etc.) frame. Making papier-mâché is also a popular pastime, especially with children.

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Article title : Papier-mâché
"confectionnée en ornements, que l'on dispose et assemble pour les décorations intérieures.", P. Joudou, Nomenclature générale des termes et mode de métré..."
Article title : Grand Staircase of the Titanic
"published in 1812 in the book by Percier and Fontaine Recueil de décorations intérieures, that inspiration was drawn. Among the several differences between..."
Article title : Charles Percier
"son.:220 In 1812, Percier and Fontaine published the Recueil de décoration intérieure concernant tout ce qui rapporte à l'ameublement ("Collection of..."
Article title : Alexandra David-Néel
"across the border into Tibet." "Le palais du dalaï-lama dont la décoration intérieure, très riche en certains endroits, est entièrement de style chinois..."
Article title : Empire style
"the renovation of the various royal residences. Their Recueil de décorations intérieures (1812) was an essential handbook of the Empire style. (Honour 1977..."
Article title : Claude-Aimé Chenavard
"and was born at Lyons in 1798. He published Nouveau Recueil de Decorations intérieures, 1833–1835, and Album de L'Ornemaniste, 1835. He died in Paris..."
Article title : Gert Louis Lamartine
"Operations, Inc., 2015 See also Ecole du Meuble, 1930–1950: la décoration intérieure et les arts décoratifs à Montréal, 1989, same text on p. 88 in French..."
Article title : Bouchara (trademark)
"French). Flammarion. Cardelus, David (1999). Le grand livre de la décoration intérieure (in French) (Place des Victoires ed.). Bouchara se prépare à changer..."
Article title : Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
"1812. Publication by Fontaine and Percier of their Recueil de décorations intérieures, the handbook of Empire style. 1813. He is named first architect..."
Article title : Sarah Lavoine
"Caroline Wietzel; Guillaume de Laubier. Sarah Lavoine : Architecture intérieure. Paris: Éditions de la Martinière. ISBN 978-2732442785. Ainsi soit style..."

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