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Yes, this piece of eye candy on either side of the stage is 100% plaster!
State Theater, Detroit Michigan.
made some plaster mold models today. about 300 of them. for potentially carving little houses and tenement buildings out of.
My wife says this shape looks like a "bunny."
I say it must be the outline of some European country! :)
Lime stone Marmarino hand troweled plaster walls.Hate Beige..................but in this economy THANK GOD FOR BEIGE!
The late Georgian plaster vaulting under the tower at Dunchurch.
St Peter's at Dunchurch is an impressive red sandstone building dating largely from the 14th & 15th centuries, but rather restored in the 19th. It's impressive west tower changes colour in it's topmost stage and has a richly detailed parapet (sadly the carvings are worn, as is it's otherwise fine cusped west doorway).
The interior of the building is somewhat dark, due both to the colour of the stonework, and the mostly Edwardian stained glass (it's east and west windows are by Bryans, and often mistaken for Kempe's work). It feels like it has been stripped of much of it's antiquity, and this is attested to by the few fragments of the once fine medieval woodwork, stalls and benches all lost by the end of the Georgian period, with only five architectural panels worked into the more recent furniture in the chancel. otherwise the furnishings are all Victorian. There is an intriguing Baroque tablet in the north aisle with it's central inscription flanked by open marble doors, suggesting the entrance to a tomb.
A further ancient feature removed from the church has survived; the east window's fine 14th century geometric tracery remained in place until the late Victorian restoration when it was replaced with the present design. The old tracery was preserved and is now in the entrance hall of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, where thousands of visitors walk past it each year, though likely very few ever notice it!
This church's tower is one of the most familiar anywhere to me, being a regularly seen landmark throughout my childhood, growing up in nearby Rugby. I even climbed to the top of it in 1992 via the scaffolding it was then shrouded in, whilst getting some experience cleaning the west window.
finally, after 25 years, a solution to all my feet problems.
those size 12 babies are the bane to my existence. orthotics are being made, and hopefully, will help.
Kenmore
Text on back of postcard:
Kenmore, built 1752, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Home of the Patriot Fielding Lewis and his wife Betty, sister of George Washington. In the Library is seen a fine plaster over-mantel and the famous ornamented ceiling depicting the four seasons.
Postmark:
not mailed
Copyright:
YorKolor Process, 134 Spring St., N. Y. 12, N. Y.
Ektachrome by L. H. Frohman, Bronxville, N. Y.
I'll never stop marvelling at this stuff. I'm not really a fan of decoration as a rule, but Moroccan craftsmanship provides an absolute exception - it really is amazing stuff.
The last moments of a small, skinny dog choking to death on Vesuvius' poisonous fumes. I have to admit that this one affected me more than any of the human casts did.
A worker gives a grainy finsh to plaster using a toothed hammer. A similar technique was used on stonework from Anatolia dating from the 6th cen. BCE. Kızkalesi, near Silifke, Turkey. June 1990.