Thirty-five years ago, when John Doherty was doing rehab work for a student housing company in Philadelphia, removing old plasterwork to make way for drywall (a type of board), he was struck by the ...

Home decoration was all the rage in the late 19th century. With the Industrial Revolution in England and America in full swing, a growing middle class on both sides of the Atlantic had spending money ...

Stucco – the ancient art of decorative plasterwork – is alive and kicking and no longer preserve of the uber-rich. Belfast-based Stuccodore Paul Marlow An example of Marlow's contemporary Stucco ...

THIS double-fronted semi-detached period house in Dublin 6 has many of its original features, including decorative plasterwork and timber floors. The four-bedroom two-storey Victorian house, at 100 ...

Sir, – I refer to your article “Hands on traditional skills and where to learn them” (Weekend Review, June 25th), which stated… Sir, – I refer to your article “Hands on traditional skills and where to ...