Zuber & Cie
Zuber et Cie also Zuber & Cie is an existing since 1797 French wallpaper factory and the claims to be world's last production facility for manufactured with wood models wallpaper and fabrics.
Generally
For the production of wallpaper and curtains Zuber has access to an archive of more than 100,000 engraved blocks of wood from the 18th and 19th centuries, which are available as " historic monuments" historic monument. Zuber offers panoramic sceneries such as " Vue de l' Amérique du Nord", "Eldorado Hindoustan " or " Isola Bella " and patterned wallpaper, borders, ceiling paintings and furnishing fabrics, all products are hand printed in an elaborate process.
Zuber business with showrooms in Paris and Nice, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dubai.
When Kennedy officiated at the White House, left his wife Jacqueline Kennedy the Diplomatic Reception Room decorate with the 1834 -designed panoramic wallpaper " Vue de l' Amérique Nord" Zuber. This wallpaper came from the so-called Jones - house, where, as the house had to give way to a grocery store until 1961, had been hanging. However, the wallpaper was saved shortly before the demolition and was then sold to the White House.
Another historic Zuber wallpaper, which consists of 32 tracks and about 15 meters long panoramic scene " Les guerres d' Independence", scored at auction $ 40,500 and is considered the most expensive wallpaper in the world.
History
The factory " Zuber & Cie" has to print its roots in the German Tapetenfabrik Nicolas Dolfus & Cie in Mulhouse, in the clerk Jean Zuber in 1790 undertook the first trials with engraved copper rollers and glued together sheets of paper wallcoverings. Since paper was not yet such as fabric could be prepared in meter long runways, and the paper repeatedly struck wrinkles while sticking together, but a consistent printing was almost impossible, so the tub attempts were not crowned with success. Only after the production of continuous rolls of paper (1799 ) about his process from 1826 could be applied industrially. In 1795 the company Nicolas Dolfus & Cie in " Hartmann, Risler & Cie" was renamed. On August 8, 1796 married Jean Zuber, Elisabeth Spörlein ( 1775-1856 ). After the relocation of the factory in the Alsace Rixheim 1797, the factory was once again renamed now in " Zuber & Cie" and then was from 1798 on French soil. Tub son Jean Zuber jun. (1799-1853) took over the company and led them on. The factory was still continued until 1968 by direct descendants.
The American " The Frederick Post" reported that Jean Zuber wallpaper was so famous in his lifetime of the founder, that King Louis Philippe, took him in 1834, during which the American panoramic scene was first printed in the Legion of Honor.