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House & Garden 
It is the interior of 
this type to which 
r oug h-textured 
plaster wall finish¬ 
es are especially 
suited, to which, 
in fact, they are a 
necessary means of 
complete architec¬ 
tural expression. 
The architect is 
Bloodgood Tuttle 
Gillies 
The increasing popii- 
larity of textured 
plaster walls has re¬ 
sulted in the devel¬ 
opment of a number 
of very effective fin¬ 
ishes, which may be 
applied over old walls 
This type of English 
plastered interior de¬ 
mands a roughly tex¬ 
tured wall for the 
rendering of its true 
handworked character 
A cement wall finish for 
the formal foyer or lobby, 
closely imitating the famous 
Caen stone from Normandy 
I 
A cement wall finish which re¬ 
produces almost to perfection 
the effect of the open-grained 
stone called travertine 
Great possibilities in 
the creating of tex¬ 
tured plaster walls 
are developed by 
tinted wall finishes 
which may be applied 
with a brush, by pro¬ 
fessional or amateur 
A stippled plaster 
finish applied with a 
brush and marked off 
in stone courses. An 
effect of travertine 
can he obtained thus 
