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Sparkling Mural Enhancements

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Sparkling Mural Enhancements
Sparkling Mural Enhancements

Traditional wallpaper has long been transformed into an art object – not least thanks to innovative VINNAPERL®plastic beads from WACKER.
Ullrich Eitel, managing director of Marburger Tapetenfabrik (left) and Prof. Luigi Colani sign a press roller for a wallpaper design.
Allen Jones, Karim Rashid, Niki de Saint Phalle and many other accomplished artists with international designer reputations have already created collections for the long-established wallpaper manufacturer Marburger Tapetenfabrik J.B. Schaefer GmbH & Co. KG, in short, “marburg.”
Three years ago, together with designer Ulf Moritz, marburg ventured into a new field: “Moritz has succeeded in expanding decorative wallpaper into a three-dimensional entity,” explains marburg’s managing director Ullrich Eitel proudly.
The basic idea, however, came from creative forces at marburg. The idea was for the new plastic to produce light effects after application to the wallpaper, and thus imbue the wall covering with a completely novel, previously unknown appearance.
Wallpaper containing VINNAPERL® from the marburg collection.
To this end, the designers needed small, globular plastic particles that wouldn’t be affected by the wallpaper production process. And so, in 2004, they inspired WACKER’s materials specialists to develop VINNAPERL®– tiny pellets of polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) with very unusual properties. VINNAPERL®boasts unique optical brilliance, and retains its transparency even up to 200 C
WACKER sales manager Andreas Eidens and Ullrich Eitel check wallpaper samples containing VINNAPERL®.

Design on the Wall

During the wallpaper production process, the beads are sprinkled onto webs to which adhesive has been applied in the desired pattern. The highly complex sprinkling technique for the PVAc beads was developed by marburg. The wallpaper then passes through a 40-meter-long drying tunnel,
followed by a cooling station. The result is
a richly ornamented wallpaper that generates impressive light effects within the building. “An interaction between look and feel is created, combined with special light effects,” explains wall-covering expert Eitel.
Soon, anyone who sees wallpaper (or better yet, wall covering) with particularly interesting light effects can rest assured that it, too, was printed at Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

A Long History of Design

Wall design and decoration are as old as mankind. Impressive rock and cave paintings tell of life in primitive times. Pompeiian mosaics as well as Greek and Roman frescoes, with their secular themes, are regarded as early examples of room decoration..

Wall coverings of valuable fabrics or embossed, gilded leather have been attributes of genteel lifestyles since the Middle Ages.

The first printed papers for walls of middle-class households date back to the 14th century. In 17th century France and England, paper factories started printing what were known as domino papers, the forerunners of today’s wallpapers.

These had repeat patterns, thus permitting continuous coverage of large areas.

The Frenchman J. B. Reveillon is deemed the pioneer of industrial wallpaper manufacture, as he was the first to print continuous rolls of paper. The industrial age for wallpaper began properly with the invention of rotary printing in the second half of the 19th century.