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House & Garden 
{Left) In many Italian villas are to be found examples of 
decorative plaster work that could be adapted for American 
homes. The plaster decoration of the small room in this 
Tuscan villa is in low relief. The pictures are paneled in 
attached moldings 
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The hall in the Villa Lazzara- a leafy bower. Such an interpre- 
Pisani, at Stra, has walls and ceil- tation of the restrained Rococo 
ing of plain white plaster. On style might well be applied to the 
this are painted low-relief decora- loggia or vestibule of a good 
tions in green, giving the effect of sized American country house 
Another Italian 
example shows 
an arabesque 
pattern in multi¬ 
color, the pattern 
being designed 
to fit the exact 
wall space avail¬ 
able 
Cream colored 
and gray chev- 
r o n bandings 
with birds form 
the design for 
this modern 
stenciled decora¬ 
tion in a Floren¬ 
tine villa 
