Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain(English, Electronic book text, Beard Geoffrey)

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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain(English, Electronic book text, Beard Geoffrey) is written by Beard Geoffrey and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317742885 (ISBN 10) and 9781317742883 (ISBN 13).

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.