Punch paper

To accompany the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cult of Beauty exhibition, illustrator Matt Blease has created a wallpaper made from cartoons of design greats and celebrities, which will form a backdrop at Liberty’s V&A Cult of Beauty windows at its store in London.

Blease says, ‘The cult of beauty exhibition looks at the aesthetic movement from 1860 to 1900. One of the things that I loved from this time was the weekly magazine Punch. It created humorous and satirical illustrations of popular figures, I though it would be nice to look at this again, but with a modern twist.’

Kate Moss, Tinie Tempah, Stella McCartney and Tracey Emin
Wallpaper by Matt Blease

All of the characters are linked to the store in some way. Grayson Perry was commissioned to create a Liberty print for the stores and Tom Dixon has worked on a number of interiors projects for the store, including the Liberty Café.

The windows will be unveiled tomorrow, but here’s a sneak peak of Blease’s wallpaper.

Kate Moss, Tinie Tempah, Stella McCartney and Tracey Emin
Tom Dixon, Jefferson Hack, Maxine Groucutt, Arthur Liberty

Kate Moss, Tinie Tempah, Stella McCartney and Tracey Emin
Katy Grand, Vivienne Westwood, Beth Ditto and Meg Matthews

Kate Moss, Tinie Tempah, Stella McCartney and Tracey Emin
Kate Moss, Tinie Tempah, Stella McCartney and Tracey Emin

Charles Eames and Grayson Perry by Matt Blease
Charles Eames and Grayson Perry by Matt Blease

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