I hope this post inspires others to trumpet plaster’s praises and draws attention to the beauty of its many forms.Ī cornice by artist Tom Otterness in a hall of a collector’s apartment. (More images of our work here will be featured in my upcoming book, American Decoration). It features approximately 24,963 square feet of living space. Plaster, who founded Evergreen Investments, LLC. Stephen Shubel’s house featured in July/August 2011 House Beautiful (8)Īnd for those of you that want to learn more about the history of this remarkable material and its preservation, the National Park Service’s Department of the Interior website has a thorough brief on the topic. This abandoned lakefront glass home, dubbed Crystal Palace, is located at 650 Evergreen Lane in Branson, Missouri and is situated on over 365 acres of land on the banks of prestigious Table Rock Lake. More images from this project photographed by Luca Trovato may be seen here. I am looking for pictures of the house on the outside and inside but cannot find anything. All I have found out about it so far is that its called the Evergreen Crystal Palace, and was built by Robert Plaster. I would also like to call attention to Stephen Shubel’s handsome California home filled with plaster sculptures in the July/August 2012 issue of House Beautiful. I am looking for information on this large house that sits atop a hill on Table Rock Lake near Kimberling city, MO. Plaster Foundation is selling a major residential property known as the Evergreen Crystal Palace. The Dome area of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London (7) Sculpture Gallery, Boston Athenaeum, circa 1855 (6) Storeroom with Artisans and Plaster Casts, Crystal Palace, 1852 (5) The ‘Cast Courts’ in the South Kensington Museum (now Victoria & Albert Museum) (4) The head of the Marseillaise for the Arc de Triomphe at the Trocadero Palace (3) These are a few of my favorite examples of this often uncelebrated material. Indeed, we started with our childhood art projects–making rustic plaster models – and made our way to the more sophisticated levels of sculpture and architectural decoration where its richer legacies can be found. Richard Cameron, founder and director of the Beaux Arts Atelier at the Institute, was there with me, and this lead to a broad conversation about the marvels of this seemingly lowly material. Pieces from the ICAA’s Historic Plaster Cast Collection (2) Plaster (1836 - 1919) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and. While there, I was impressed again by the quality of the Historic Plaster Cast Collection lining their walls. We called Robert Dellaquila Plastering as they had. The 30,000 square-foot mansion is called the Evergreen Crystal Palace. Pics of : Plaster Mansion Table Rock Lake. Viral 80 million 'Crystal Palace' for sale in Branson BRANSON, Mo. Creator and founder of Empire Gas which later became one of the nation's largest propane distributors. Its owner, the late philanthropist Robert Plaster, left the. He was a prominent businessman and philantropist. On Thursday last I visited the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art office in New York to offer general advice about the decoration of their rooms. Robert w Plaster, was 78, when he died at his home in Evergreen, near Lebanon, Missouri. Children exploring the cast collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931 (1)
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