The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated this part of Fort Greene as a historic district in 1978, inhibiting demolition and development and keeping local artisans -- chimney builders, iron casters, plaster workers -- very busy.
But first she sang at a tiny cafe down the street, Aux Folies, an art-deco relic with cubist mosaics, swirls of neon lettering above its zinc counter, and iron pillars plastered with handbills for shows dating back to the 1920s.
His need for fantasy broke the connection; he started to "play" with his materials: wood, plaster, iron wire, especially iron wire. . . .
The clay likely acts as a binding material, and the iron gives the plaster a characteristic pink color.
Swirling neon lights announce its name across the white ceiling and walls, a cubist mosaic decorates the floor, and little iron pillars are plastered with ancient playbills.
Working from historic photographs, the owners will reconstruct a classic-looking new lobby incorporating many of the surviving original elements, including the 1907 decorative lobby frieze, its cast-iron embellishments, and plaster remnants that include the claws of decorative eagles, now missing.
Mr. West's four small plaster and iron sculptures, called adaptives, are available for handling.
EDX microanalysis shows a sharp C peak with medium and low signals corresponding to the presence of silicon, calcium, aluminium, sulphur, sodium, chloride, magnesium, iron and Ti from the plaster layer beneath.
Eliot Markell, Pompeii On Parade #2, salvaged beach rope, tissue paper, rusted iron bolt, and pigment, on plaster, and driftwood, 28" x 11" x 16", 2015.
To limit this effect, De Pauw immediately, in the mine-gallery, re-covered the dug-out fossils with wet clay, sealing them with paper and plaster reinforced by iron rings, forming in total about six hundred transportable blocks with a combined weight of a hundred and thirty tons.
