Beard, G: Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain
Beschreibung:
A reprint of the classic work by Geoffrey Beard, with a new introduction by Jeff Orton and Richard Ireland. Long unavailable, it is a detailed and comprehensive study of this most essential part of the interior decoration of the British country house and contains 120 plates.
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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