The Alabastine Book
The Alabastine Book is a 1915 trade booklet issued by the Alabastine Company, a maker of wall coating, to show homeowners and decorators how its product could finish interior rooms. Its pictures are multi-panel colour plates of rooms in bedroom, sitting-room, dining and hall settings, plus paired swatches of painted and papered walls. A designer could take from them the period palette of muted pinks, greens and ochres, the wainscot and frieze borders, and the way wall tints were paired with furniture and window treatments.
