One of the reasons that I bought my 1905 Neo-French Renaissance house was that it had ornamental plaster ceiling decorations and medallions. The decorative plaster ceilings had been either badly ...

Thirty-five years ago, when John Doherty was doing rehab work for Campus Apartments, removing old plasterwork to make way for drywall, he was struck by the beauty of the buildings’ antique plaster ...

PHILADELPHIA — Thirty-five years ago, when John Doherty was doing rehab work for Campus Apartments, removing old plasterwork to make way for drywall, he was struck by the beauty of the buildings’ ...

A friend recently divulged her plans to trowel plaster onto her living room walls and then have craftsmen comb the moist material from top to bottom, creating an eye-catching corrugated surface. It is ...

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No exaggeration, Dominic LaFerla has created his own Versailles. Nestled on two large lots on a quiet street in Walteria, there is a 2,300 square-foot home that surpasses anything viewed at Hearst’s ...

Sometimes, on a nice afternoon, Jeff Poree drives by the Peristyle in City Park, where he and his workers spent three months in 2012, resurfacing every bit of the century-old ceiling and ionic columns ...

San Francisco has no shortage of grand homes. From elaborate Victorians to sprawling hilltop mansions, these ornate houses often have one defining feature at their center — a plaster shield or crest ...

Jeff Poree Plastering is a big operation, with a 15,000-square-foot casting shop in Mid-City that goes through 1,200 pounds of plaster on a busy day. Its 33 employees range from new apprentices ...