A Visit to King Christophe (scenic wallpaper set, ca. 1929)

A luxury scenic wallpaper set of nine strips designed by Nicholas de Molas and published by Katzenbach and Warren of New York in a limited edition of 100 sets priced at $600, turning Haiti's monarchical past — Christophe's court, his 'Les Dahomeys' regiment — into decorative exoticism for wealthy U.S. consumers during the occupation era. The object is a material record of how occupation-era Haiti circulated not only through journalism and travel literature but into the interior design of American homes, domesticating imperial spectacle as aesthetic consumption.