Citation: Pulled Plaster Panels

摘要

To create a custom tiled surface that wraps a 1,000-square-foot core wall of a New York duplex apartment, Bryan Young, aia, considered using felt, glass, and metal. Then he came upon plaster. Plaster is both economical and full of "rich and unexplored" potential, he says. His curiosity was piqued when an artisan introduced him to the time-honored technique of pulled plaster, in which a pile of wet plaster is scoured into shape by a contoured die ("knife") and carrier ("horse") pulled along straight rails. The technique is used to make crown molding.