The department opened in 2000 and has since had ... By the time everything is done, just a small piece of the old wallpaper will remain, framed and hung in the renewed space along with the ...

The wallpaper, which was created by the celebrated ... Well dressed Black people strolled in the parks and frequented department stores. It was, Ms. Jones said, this kind of new sociability.

That meant avocado-green wallpaper we ripped off in satisfying swaths in the study, as well as butterfly wallpaper we couldn’t pick off and eventually just painted over in my sister’s room.

By Lia Picard When Ryia Jose decorated her daughters’ bedroom, she felt there was only one way to approach a room with a slanted ceiling: Cover it in wallpaper, the ceiling included. Doing so ...