The Musée des Arts Decoratifs, in Paris, is holding a wallpaper exhibition in its galleries d’études, from January 21 to April 12, 2016. 300 of the museum’s 400,000 pieces have been selected to represent the collection. The exhibition compares various origins and periods, offering an ample range of styles, from the 17th century to today. The important samples illustrate the role that wallpaper has played throughout the history of the decorative arts, and how precious the museum’s collection, the largest in the world, actually is. Through the authority and variety of the selected examples, the exhibition demonstrates that wallpaper has regained its grand style. Interior walls are no longer nude, but covered in refined patterns, ranging from flora and fauna, landscapes, geometric motifs, all which point to the wide-spread revival of decoration, which is not a “crime”, as Adolf Loos has said, but an imperative trend.