Zuber Cie, founded as Jean Zuber et Cie is a French Manufacture de Papier Peints et Tissus (French for: painted wallpaper and fabrics) company which claims to be the last factory in the world to produce woodblock printed wallpapers and furnishing fabrics.
For its production Zuber Cie uses woodblocks (more than 100,000) engraved during the 17th 18, and 19th centuries. Zuber Cie's panoramic wallpapers include Vue de l'Amérique du Nord, Eldorado, Hindoustan, les Guerres d´Independence , and Isola Bella. Zuber Cie also produces dado borders, friezes, and ceiling papers, some depicting faux representations of architectural details, drapery, fringe, and tassels. Zuber Cie has showrooms in Paris and Nice, New York, Los Angeles, London and Dubai.
During the presidency of John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy on recommendation of historian Henry Francis du Pont had an antique copy of the panoramic wallpaper Vue de l'Amérique du Nord, (designed in 1834) in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. The wallpaper had been on the walls of a parlor in the Federal period Jones House in Maryland until 1961 when the house was demolished for a grocery store. Just before the demolition, the wallpaper was salvaged and sold to the White House. This panorama is, like many 18th century wallpapers, designed to be hung above a dado.
Since its founding in 1797 by Jean Zuber, Zuber Cie has maintained its headquarters at Rixheim, France. The Frederick Post reported that Jean Zuber’s wallpapers were so respected that King Louis Philippe honored him with the Legion of Honor in 1834, the year that Scenic America was printed,”.