From plaster effects to stone look finishes, from matt chalk to subtle mica and metallic sheens, all our plain and textured wallpapers and wallcoverings are designed to provide depth and interest and create the perfect backdrop for any scheme in any room.
From plaster effects to stone look finishes, from matt chalk to subtle mica and metallic sheens, all of our plain and textured wallpapers are designed to provide depth and interest and create the perfect backdrop for any scheme in any room.
Not exact matches
In these works
from the 1990s, he used the technically difficult dye - transfer method to apply fragmentary photographic images onto
plaster and polylaminate panels to create ghostly
effects.
Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small
plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors
from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep
effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.
I'm a huge fan of the Moroccan
plaster finish tadelakt — applied seamlessly, it results in a beautifully smooth surface, free
from grout lines — or alternatively, polished concrete, because it doesn't matter if it chips slightly as it just leaves a lovely crumpled
effect.
In this room, the Venetian - style
plaster ceiling is decorated with painted flowering vines extending
from the chandelier medallion, providing the
effect of an interior forest.