Hair and clothing styles, jewelry, snuffboxes, wallpaper, chandeliers, bird cages, fans, clocks, chairs, armoires, hats, and other items, were designed with balloon motifs. Thanks to the generosity of ...

In 1783, two brothers demonstrated their invention, the hot air balloon, before a crowd of ... a successful wallpaper manufacturer, according to the Palace of Versailles museum.

A watch case depicts the flight of a Montgolfier hot-air balloon ... A colorful hatbox covered in wallpaper commemorates a balloon flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1835. A large oil painting ...

To adapt the typical hot air balloon, Aitken and his studio tapped into the ballooning ... changing as the world does around it. Out of office: what the Wallpaper* editors have been up to this week ...

Before subjecting humans to the unknown dangers of flight in a hot-air balloon, French inventors conducted a trial run, sending a sheep, a duck and a rooster up in the air over Versailles.