Zuber Cie, founded as Jean Zuber et Cie is a French Manufacture de Papier Peints et Tissus (French for: painted wallpaper

Wallpaper

Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold in rolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste...

 and fabrics) company which claims to be the last factory in the world to produce woodblock printed wallpapers and furnishing fabrics.

For its production Zuber Cie uses woodblocks (more than 100,000) engraved during the 17th 18, and 19th centuries. Zuber Cie's panoramic wallpapers include Vue de l'Amérique du Nord, Eldorado, Hindoustan, les Guerres d´Independence , and Isola Bella. Zuber Cie also produces dado borders, friezes, and ceiling papers, some depicting faux representations of architectural details, drapery

Drapery

Drapery is a general word referring to cloths or textiles . It may refer to cloth used for decorative purposes – such as around windows – or to the trade of retailing cloth, originally mostly for clothing, formerly conducted by drapers.In art history, drapery refers to any cloth or...

, fringe

Fringe (trim)

Fringe is an ornamental textile trim applied to an edge of an item, such as drapery, a flag, epaulettes, or decorative tassel.Fringe originates in the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric...

, and tassel

Tassel

A tassel is a finishing feature in fabric decoration. It is a universal ornament that is seen in varying versions in many cultures around the globe.-Etymology:...

s. Zuber Cie has showrooms in Paris and Nice, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dubai.

During the presidency of John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

, First Lady

First Lady

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 Jacqueline Kennedy on recommendation of historian Henry Francis du Pont

Henry Francis du Pont

Henry Francis du Pont , Harvard 1903, married 1916 Ruth Wales was an American horticulturist, an expert on early American furniture and decorative arts – particularly of the Federal furniture, and a member of the prominent du Pont family....

 had an antique copy of the panoramic wallpaper Vue de l'Amérique du Nord, (designed in 1834) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House

White House

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. The wallpaper had been on the walls of a parlor in the Federal period Jones House in Maryland

Maryland

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 until 1961 when the house was demolished for a grocery store. Just before the demolition, the wallpaper was salvaged and sold to the White House. This panorama is, like many 18th century wallpapers, designed to be hung above a dado

Dado (architecture)

In architectural terminology, the dado, borrowed from Italian meaning die or plinth, is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board....

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History

Since its founding in 1797 by Jean Zuber, Zuber Cie has maintained its headquarters at Rixheim

Rixheim

Rixheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It forms part of the Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération, the inter-communal local government body for the Mulhouse conurbation.-References:*...

, France. The Frederick Post reported that Jean Zuber’s wallpapers were so respected that King Louis Philippe honored him with the Legion of Honor in 1834, the year that Scenic America was printed,”.