Alabastine home color book
A 1928 promotional color book issued by the Alabastine Company, a wall-coating maker, to show homeowners how its paints and wall finishes could decorate rooms. The pictures are line drawings of interiors, some tinted in colour pencil, in which walls, borders and furnishings are shown in different tones. A designer might take from them the practice of pairing a stencilled frieze or border with plain wall colour, and the way a single room can be shown in several palettes.
