The little frieze that runs along the corridors and stairwell intrigues my visitors. She has a funny little story that I’m telling you below.
When I first wanted to decorate this space, I discovered that the distance between the wooden mouldings (15 cm) does not correspond to any of the standard dimensions of the wallpaper friezes. So I decided to put “my paw” in it. The first version was a ivy path.
After a few years, tired of ivy, the second version, was inspired by the decor of a lampshade discovered one day on a flea market.
I redraw the enlarged pattern. Then photocopied, in quantity since the frieze runs all along the entrance on the second floor. Then glued by adapting to angles and turns so that the movement never seems to stop.
Years later, by the greatest chance, during a research on a subject far from decoration, my son found the origin of this drawing!
It is in fact a tiny piece of a large and magnificent fresco of a german painter, Karl Wilhelm DIEFFENBACH sixty-eight meters long.
The frieze is called “Per aspera ad astra” and you can see it : here
