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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain book cover

1st Edition

Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

By Geoffrey Beard, Jeff Orton, Richard Ireland Copyright 2010
296 Pages
by Routledge

Decorative plasterwork was created by skilled craftsmen, and for over four hundred years it has been an essential part of the interior decoration of the British country house. In this detailed and comprehensive study, Geoffrey Beard has created a book that will delight the eye and inform the interested reader. For those who have sometimes been puzzled by the complexities of plaster decoration it... Read more

Preface; Acknowledgments; MAGNIFICENT BUILDING; The urge to build, income and costs, sources of income; MATERIALS AND METHODS: Raw materials and equipment, plaster, hair, sand, laths, stucco, armatures, tools, moulds, methods of work, guilds, apprentices and craftsmen; WROUGHT WITH PLASTER, 1500-1600; THE BEST MASTERS, 1660-1702: The Office of works, the principal officers, The Master Plasterer; Official projects, Whitehall to 1685, Newmarket, Windsor Castle, the City Churches, St Paul's Cathedral, Winchester, Whitehall: the Chapel; Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, Greenwich Palace, Private Patronage; ADORNED WITH STUCCO 1702-1760; CLASSICAL COMPOSITION 1760-1830; PLASTERWORK IN SCOTLAND; Notes; Plates; Select List of Plasterers; Biblography; Index of Places; Index of Persons.

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