BACK TO THE WALL.

The article reports that the Design Reform campaign was a reaction against perceived excesses in 19th-century wallpaper design, but as Edward Poynter, a one-time president of the Royal Academy, remarked at the time. It mentions that A.W.N. Pugin, the designer of the interior of the Houses of Parliament, railed against wallpapers where a wretched caricature of a pointed building is repeated.