Artistic Plastery.

Progress, 1 October 1908, Page 420

Artistic Plastery.

Why should all plastering be hideously chained on the dead level? A recent writer answers with force that the modern plasterer, even when engaged on comparatively cheap work, may easily avoid some of the worst faults of the generality of pre-sent-day work What could be more utterly senseless find tasteless than the cornice and central ornament in the average suburban parlour or drawing-room? The cornice has no relation to the wall, the

central rose ornament looks as if it had been stuck on as an afterthought, and both are almost without design — mere worrymgs of the material which is supposed to produce ornamental result. It ought not to be beyond the resources of the operative plasterer to produce moulded cornices and centrepieces based upon simple natural forms broadh treated, as plaster requires, to make the cornice a natural and pleasing junction between wall and ceiling, and to give to all the decorative work the effect of being built up from the plane surface — not precariously attached to it