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 will be a most useful work of reference on a fascinating art form; about which no book has been published for nearly fifty years. After discussing the part that patrons played in commissioning and financing these beautiful decorations; a useful chapter is devoted to materials and methods of work and here the author describes the ingredients of good plaster; he has studied the work of present-day English plasterers and Swiss stucco-restorers in order to establish precisely how the materials of plaster and stucco were composed and used.
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