Summary

Colour Chart and Leaflet titled 'Bergermaster All Weather House Paint', issued in 1964. This leaflet is part of a group of material acquired from the Dulux Archives following their dissolution in May 1999.

Physical Description

Bergermaster All Weather House Paint Colour Chart and leaflet with 27 colour swatches. The front cover has an illustration of a house divided into four sections of different types of weather on a yellow background.

Significance

These objects demonstrate the intersection between technology, marketing and popular tastes through the case study of the paint industry. They are powerful signifiers of changes in Australian domestic architectural practice over time. The objects and paper based ephemera offer unique evidence of advertising practice, popular architecture and home decoration from the 1920s through to the 1970s. The material offers tangible evidence of changes in Australian marketing and in home decoration.

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