The store, with dead-simple décor, offers the firm's Southampton Cube armchair ($2,650), Plaster Column lamp ($1,400) and Tufted Back sofa ($5,800), above the inset; and vintage pieces, including a $14,500 pair of painted dressers and an abandoned beehive ($3,800), top right.
She was the famous (now deceased) fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune who decided, when given a particularly awful seat at a top collection, to review the only thing she could actually see: the plaster column in front of her.
The assembled sheets stand in front of a mirror to create a shimmering 60-foot-long wall, while the luminous Venetian plaster columns curve upward like calla lilies.
When Hurricane Sandy hit the Trump SoHo New York Hotel last year, the Fendi Casa furnishings in the rooms, the Taschen art books in the library and the Venetian plaster columns in the lobby all disappeared under the blanket of darkness that covered Lower Manhattan.
Enclosed within cool, plaster columns, the pool forms the focal point of this sprawling, 17th-century property, which consists of three houses knocked into one, with an unusually minimalist decor.
When Evie encounters Russell's ranch, she appraises it like Charles Bovary visiting Emma's farm for the first time: "An old wood house: the knobby rosettes and plaster columns giving it the air of a minor castle. . . .
For the steel and plaster columns, he covered them with the imitation marble known as scagliola, applying layers of plaster impregnated with color and other effects by virtue of a Barianos family secret formula that employs, among other ingredients, silk threads to imitate veining.
The Victorians favored plaster columns and tree trunks as props for their subjects, with woodland scenery sketched behind; studio photographers since the 50's have relied on sheets of mottled paper as the standard backdrop, with carpeted stairs as a perch.
The portraits of a young man that greet visitors at the entrance are, somewhat surprisingly, Chaplin in his early 20s; the desk below was sourced from ReUse Salvage in Glendale (i.e., the plaster columns) and Future Glass Company in Burbank (the glass top), with an authentic Eames chair found at the Rose Bowl.
Ms. Santry commissioned the valance but carved the 12-foot plaster Corinthian column to the left of the windows herself.
It had a triple doorway divided by columns and was built from adobe covered with plaster, the columns and walls on eithers side of the doorways were painted with decorations, traces of red, yellow and blue were found by archaeologists, these colours were applied to designs marked out onto a thin cap of clay with a pointed instrument.
