With set designed by American auteur David Lynch, doors opened to reveal a metre-high plaster sculpture of a screaming head backed by a screen playing footage of grey stormy skies.
By the time I was in junior high school, I was spending many nights and most weekends at a workbench in our basement laboring over a scale model of the building, three feet wide by six feet long, complete with a thirteen-inch-high plaster replica of Phidias' statue, for the decoration of which I learned how to apply real gold leaf.
It has eight fireplaces, high ceilings, plaster moldings, pine plank floors and a gunite swimming pool.
Walk inside, and your eyes have to acclimate to the darkness of the polished paneled walls and 12 ft. high molded plaster ceilings.
Her reds went to fire-engine extremes; her greens were positively Kelly; her high-relief plaster moldings were baroque-bizarre; and she adored the high-impact combo of gloss black and chalk white.
When they reopened the building, they discovered a 10-foot-high mud, plaster and wood grotto on the second floor.
It's in a building that is more than 100 years old and has high ceilings plastered with posters, and small white tiles on floor and walls.
To avoid any eccentricity, each column specimen was adjusted in such a way that the center line of axial loading coincides with the longitudinal axis of the column, and to ensure the complete contact with the loading plates, the top and bottom end surfaces of each column specimen were leveled with a layer of high-strength plaster powder.
The ceilings are 10 feet high with ornate plaster detail.
"We basically bought this house without seeing the interior," Mr. Winter said, looking around the parlor floor with its high ceilings, original plaster moldings and the new deck they built to help entice new tenants, whoever they'll be.
