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The plaster was removed with a pry bar. A tarp was laid down over the stairs. Eye protection and a face mask (respirator) was used. It came out rather easily
August 2022
Interesting discoveries under the bathroom tile.
The original wall was painted a gold color. The lower part of the wall had faux subway tiles: scored lines in the plaster that were then painted with shiny enamel to produce a relatively convincing "tiled" wall. (This was also done in our kitchen, which has a faux square tile wainscoting.)
At some very early point, a stripe of black paint was added to the top and bottom of the "tile" wainscoting. (Possibly the same time as black paint was added to the trim in the kitchen -- 20s or 30s?) This is amusing because my plan was to put a black stripe of tile at the top and bottom of my subway tile tub surround! I'm restoring it to its earlier appearance without even knowing it, until now...
After that, it was painted turquoise. Yes, the same turquoise as the living room and kitchen were painted at that time. Someone in the house really liked turquoise.
Sometime after that, the tiled surround was added over it all.
The original bathroom most likely had a freestanding (clawfoot?) tub. The house wasn't terribly high-end; a working class house in a working class neighborhood. The fake tile instead of real tile is one indication that the house was inexpensive. And yet... the woodwork in the living and dining room would be very expensive to do today. Even a low-end house of 1911 looks pretty high-end to us now.
Venetian Plaster Application
700 square foot ceiling, no wax or sealers, only the finest Venetian Plaster
imported from Verona, Italy.
See full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Ycc0Xe99Q
It still needs some polishing, but this is pretty much how the final piece will look. Its a carving based on Klimt's paintings of the Tree of Life.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
Inside of 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, by Mies Van Der Rohe. Found in an architecture students scrapbook for a 200 level class.
My Mom had this eagle as part of her "Early American" decor when she first got married. Now, this regal plaster symbol of America is mine.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, 1868, plaster with patina, 13 3/4 × 9 1/4 × 7 in.
An African woman turns her head defiantly upward in a sculpture defined by its dramatic shapes and silhouettes. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created this work twenty years after France abolished slavery in 1848, and only three years after emancipation in the United States in 1865. This bust was meant to appeal to the antislavery views of a progressive white audience. However, the sculpture also objectifies the Black female body with her bound bare breasts that symbolize both liberty and colonial fantasy. This plaster is one of a few sculptures he modelled after this now-unknown woman.
This woman was also the model for the allegorical figure of Africa on a large fountain representing the four continents that Carpeaux designed for a park in Paris. This plaster is one of the independent sculptures he made based on that figure.
(Brooklyn Museum)
This photograph was taken at the "Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, 1850-1950" exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
Yes, this piece of eye candy on either side of the stage is 100% plaster!
State Theater, Detroit Michigan.