The Yellow Wallpaper is a book by Charlotte Gilman Perkins, first published in 1892. I concerns a woman, diagnose by her physician husband as suffering from some sort of nervous exhaustion, trapped in a claustrophobic house who starts to feel that there is a menacing world held in wallpaper of the bedroom that she has been confined to. It's stunning.
The piece that begins this YouTube clip is by Lesley Ford, from the MA Costume Design course at London College of Fashion.
You can see stills from it on her Showtime page - http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/LFORD2
At Danson House in Bexleyheath, a restored Georgian Manor House built by a man whoes fortune was made from sugar & the slave trade, is a Crafts Council exhibition curated by Tom Gallant, also based around the Yellow Wallpaper.
This piece, by designer Marios Shwab with Tom Gallant is one of the works on show there.
The house itself is worth a look - fantastic Chinese wallpaper, beautiful staircase & an odd bereft atmosphere. Bexleyheath is now very much a London suburb, but you can see from this house & it's setting that not long ago this was countryside, with amazing views over Kent.
Around the corner is William Morris's Red House - well worth a look
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