Zuber & Cie

The company's forerunner, Nicholas Dolfus & Cie, was founded in 1790 in Mulhouse, Alsace.{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Gordon |title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: Two-volume Set |date=9 November 2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-518948-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3Od9bcGus0C&dq=1797+zuber&pg=PA574 |language=en}} Its name changed in 1795, to Hartmann, Risler & Cie. In 1797, it moved to Rixheim, France. In 1802, the company was bought out by Jean Zuber, and its name changed to Zuber & Cie.

The Frederick Post reported that Jean Zuber's wallpapers were so respected that King Louis Philippe honored him with the Legion of Honor in 1834. The award was made for Zuber's exhibit at the French Industrial Exposition of 1834.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}Image:DiplomaticWest.jpg of the White House, showing the panoramic Zuber & Cie wallpaper Scenes of North America.|left]]File:1-Zuber-Décor-Chinois-fond-rose.jpg

For its production, Zuber & Cie uses woodblocks (more than 100,000) engraved as early as the 18th century. Zuber & Cie's panoramic wallpapers include Vues de l'Amérique du Nord,{{cite web |title=Les Vues d'Amérique du Nord {{!}} Public Humanities {{!}} Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-humanities/blog/les-vues-d%E2%80%99am%C3%A9rique-du-nord |website=www.brown.edu}} Eldorado,{{cite book |last1=Saunders |first1=Gill |title=Wallpaper in Interior Decoration |date=2002 |publisher=V&A |isbn=978-1-85177-346-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMoLAQAAMAAJ&q=zuber+Eldorado |language=en}} Hindoustan,{{cite book |title=Vogue |date=June 1999 |publisher=Condé Nast Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEY-AQAAIAAJ&q=Hindoustan+zuber |language=en}} les Guerres d'Independence, and Isola Bella. Zuber & Cie also produces dado borders, friezes, and ceiling papers, some depicting faux representations of architectural details, drapery, fringe, and tassels. Zuber & Cie has showrooms in Paris and Nice, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dubai.

During the presidency of John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on recommendation of historian Henry Francis du Pont had an antique copy of the panoramic wallpaper Vues de l'Amérique du Nord, (designed in 1843, per the Zuber et Cie website) installed in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.{{Cite web|url=https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:1cd11904-3ef9-49f4-940b-b8772854739a|title = A Republican Mirage: Zuber et Cie's Vues d'Amérique du Nord}}{{cite web |title=Zuber: The Art of French Scenic Wallpaper {{!}} SFO Museum |url=https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/zuber-art-french-scenic-wallpaper/detail |website=www.sfomuseum.org}} The wallpaper had been on the walls of a parlor in the Federal period Stoner House in Maryland until 1961 when the house was demolished for a grocery store.{{cite book |last1=Banham |first1=Joanna |title=Encyclopedia of Interior Design |date=1 May 1997 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-78757-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVKhCAAAQBAJ&dq=vues+amerique+white+house+zuber&pg=PT4750 |language=en}} Just before the demolition, the wallpaper was salvaged and sold to the White House. As with many 18th century wallpapers, this panorama is designed to be hung above a dado. The formal dining room at the Old Louisiana Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is also decorated with the Vue de l'Amérique du Nord.

Zuber's panoramic scene Vues de l'Amérique du Nord, has been the subject of at least two protests. In 2020 students and alumnae of the Spence School for girls in New York City protested its use of racist caricatures in its depiction of Black Americans and indigenous Americans.{{cite magazine |title=What to Do About a Room with a "Vues"? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/what-to-do-about-a-room-with-a-vues |magazine=The New Yorker |date=27 June 2020}}

In 2019, students in a Brown University graduate program wrote to the university, demanding the removal of the wallpaper for the same reasons. The wallpaper had been present in the campus' Nightingale-Brown House since the 1930s.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris owns 61 examples of wallpapers by Zuber & Cie, several of them made after models designed by flower painter Joseph-Laurent Malaine.{{Cite web|url=http://collections.madparis.fr/skinwebsearch?f%5B0%5D=field_skfulltext:manufacture+zuber|title=Les Arts décoratifs | Explorez les collections du Musée des Arts Décoratifs|website=collections.madparis.fr}}

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Zuber & Cie - Floral Brocade - Google Art Project.jpg|Floral Brocade (1875–1900)

File:Zuber & Cie - Sidewall - Google Art Project (6818792).jpg|Sidewall (1875–1900)

File:Zuber & Cie - Sidewall - Google Art Project (6818798).jpg|Sidewall (1875–1900)

File:Zuber & Cie - Sidewall - Google Art Project (6848401).jpg|Sidewall (1875–1900)

File:Zuber & Cie - Sidewall - Google Art Project (6852168).jpg|Sidewall (1875–1900)

File:Zuber & Cie - Sidewall - Google Art Project.jpg|Sidewall (1901–06)

File:Zuber & Cie - The Fleur de Lys - Google Art Project.jpg|The Fleur de Lys (1875–1900)

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• Abbott James A., and Elaine M. Rice. Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration. Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1998. {{ISBN|0-442-02532-7}}.
• Seale, William, The White House: The History of an American Idea. White House Historical Association: 1992, 2001. {{ISBN|0-912308-85-0}}.
• The White House: An Historic Guide. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 2001. {{ISBN|0-912308-79-6}}.

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• [http://www.zuber.fr/ Official website]
• [http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18043983/ Zuber & Cie objects in the collection of] the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• [https://www.shakespearechateau.com/explore#zuber-wallpaper Zuber Wallpaper] at the Shakespeare Chateau in St. Joseph, MO

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