{"product_id":"acanthus-haut-koenigsbourg-sandstone-forest-floor-wallpaper","title":"Acanthus, Haut-Koenigsbourg: Sandstone \/ Forest Floor Wallpaper","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarved acanthus scrollwork spirals inward through curled and lobed terminals. The source is a painted wood panel inside the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg in Alsace, a medieval fortress destroyed, abandoned for centuries, and restored at the beginning of the twentieth century. The panel is one small detail within that much larger story. Translated here to wallpaper and fabric by the yard, the design keeps the diagonal primary spines that organize the composition, with the terminals appearing at three different scales across the 76-inch repeat. This is architectural-scale pattern, the kind that holds across a double-height space or reads clearly on a feature wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePale sandstone ground with forest green scrollwork. The sandstone is a warm greige, nearly white but with enough colour to keep it from going cold. The forest green is deep and earthy. The pattern sits dark on light. A darker third value runs through selected interior curves, keeping the green forms legible against the pale ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails style=\"margin:0;\"\u003e\n\u003csummary style=\"font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;cursor:pointer;margin:0;\"\u003eRead More...\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Source\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg has spent nearly nine centuries being built, fought over, destroyed, abandoned and brought back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaised as a mountain fortress in the Middle Ages, it was besieged, pillaged and burned in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War. For more than two centuries afterward, its ruins stood above the Alsatian plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1899, the city of Sélestat offered the ruins to Kaiser Wilhelm II. He commissioned the Berlin architect Bodo Ebhardt to restore the castle completely. Ebhardt worked from the fragments on the site, from archive documents, and from other fortified castles of the period where the record ran out — and he designed a set of restoration marks: every replaced block carries one, a different symbol for each year of work, so the reconstruction could still be told from what survived. Between 1900 and 1908 the fortress rose again from the ridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday Haut-Koenigsbourg is a castle you can walk through: across the drawbridge, into the courtyards, up the spiral stairs, through the furnished rooms and the armouries and the towers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere inside it, on a painted teal ground, is the carved acanthus panel that became this design. Its maker and its date are not identified in the available record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was photographed there in August 2025 and translated into pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe castle survived. This is one small piece of what you can still find inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"margin-top:1.2em;\"\u003eThe Specifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSource:\u003c\/strong\u003e Carved wood panel with painted ground, installed in the interior of the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhotograph:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kat McDivitt, August 2025. Personal photograph.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, 67600 Orschwiller, Alsace, France.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Not identified. The available record does not date this panel or name its carver. The castle itself was restored between 1900 and 1908, with interior fittings continuing until the First World War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRepeat:\u003c\/strong\u003e 24.0 in horizontal by 76.0 in vertical. Straight match. Measured from the production TIFF, 7200 by 22800 px at 300 ppi, sRGB.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMotif scale:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grand-scale. The terminals appear at three different scales within the 76-inch repeat; the largest measures approximately 18 in from spine to terminal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLayout:\u003c\/strong\u003e Straight match. Diagonal primary spines organize the composition. Left and right edges align at the same vertical position; adjacent lengths hang level.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eValues:\u003c\/strong\u003e Three flat printed values: ground, scroll face, and a darker contour value following selected interior curves. No gradients and no modelled shading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdge:\u003c\/strong\u003e Clean. The scrollwork meets the ground at defined edges. The source carving is modelled, bevelled and undercut; the printed design reduces that depth to flat value.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReference:\u003c\/strong\u003e Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg official site: haut-koenigsbourg.fr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Wallpaper\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003ch4\u003ePeel and Stick\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA self-adhesive paper with a linen-like texture. The texture shows through the print and gives the color a quiet movement, most noticeable across a full wall. It goes up without paste and comes down more easily when the room is ready for something new.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peel and stick, no paste\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWalls:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smooth, clean, fully cured paint\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rentals and rooms where paste-free installation or easier removal matters\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ch4\u003eClay-Coated\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cp\u003eA traditional unpasted paper with a smooth, soft matte finish. Color sits cleanly on the clay surface, so the finest lines of the pattern stay sharp. It gives a room the familiar finish of traditionally hung wallpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInstall:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpasted; paste is applied to the back of each panel before hanging\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional installations, including full rooms and powder rooms away from direct water\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStart with a sample. Tape it to the wall and live with it for a few days, in morning light and again in the evening. Watch how the color and surface settle into the room, then choose the paper you'll live with.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/details\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e©Vintage Botanica","brand":"NeoTex.cloud-2","offers":[{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648816480392,"sku":"170116-NTX-1255-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Clay-Coated Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648816513160,"sku":"170116-NTX-1255-4027-STX","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Sample (8in x 10in)","offer_id":67648816545928,"sku":"170116-NTX-860-4028-STX","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Peel \u0026 Stick Wallpaper \/ Roll (24in x 12ft)","offer_id":67648816578696,"sku":"170116-NTX-860-4027-STX","price":159.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/2914\/5480\/files\/wallpaper_roll_mockup_150_20261009_201609.webp?v=1791578378","url":"https:\/\/vintagebotanica.com\/products\/acanthus-haut-koenigsbourg-sandstone-forest-floor-wallpaper","provider":"vintagebotanica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}