PATTERNS FROM THE PAST

‘It was pale grey, almost faded out completely, a really poor scrap of paper that had been kept in a drawer at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk,’ says David Mottershead, managing director of Little Greene, describing the discovery of Beech Nut, one of the wallpapers in the new National Trust Papers II collection. Based on originals unearthed in National Trust houses, each design has been reinterpreted for modern interiors. In the case of Beech Nut, it was the simplicity of line and balance between