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...wooden walls will be replaced with sheet rock and plaster and many suites will be reorganized with new rooming patterns, he says...
...sprinkler system caused most of the damage, flooding the plaster walls and ceiling of the church, Reardon said...
Just before spring break, I sat down at theUnion with Lauren and told her about one of myfirst Crimson stories. The other day an enormousAdams House party had broken up after a complaintsthat plaster was falling from the ceiling below.As was tradition, the drunken group resumed theparty in the Adams House pool, where they strippednaked to swim. It was 3 a.m. when the senior tutorturned on the lights. She was not psyched. Thenext day the pool was drained...
...celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint from the wall, using...
...conservation process took four years. No retouching of the original paint was allowed; the purpose was to preserve rather than enhance. Areas where paint and plaster had disappeared were left bare. But many of the murals are remarkably intact, the colors as rich and vivid as if they had been applied yesterday...