1960
by Knight, Hilary, either in the style of or the actual designer/artist but uncredited
1960. A fun wallpaper from the late 1950s or early 1960s, with caricatures in the style of Hilary Knight, and we wouldn't be surprised if Knight himself had a hand in the creation of this wallpaper. One of the prominent figures in the wallpaper's vignettes is unquestionably a likeness of none other than Kay Thompson, who was Knight's most famous collaborator and muse, the author of the Eloise books which remain to this day the most famous of Knight's illustrations. Of course the Thompson character is distorted within the parameters of caricature, but we believe no one would dispute that Thompson was who the artist had in mind. And one other detail that (truncated)