Upham House: Interior plasterwork for the living room
1992Plaster patterned strips with geometric miniature basketweave design in low relief, cast from a mold made in balsa wood, installed in the living room in two locations: Vertical patterned strips on the walls, above waist height, about 4 or 5 feet apart, with areas of smooth plaster between them, and horizontal raised patterned strips on the ceiling, with flower medallions at the intersection of the strips. Various mockups were made until the feeling of the room has reached as a whole was just right; sample panels of various patterns design, testing widths and details, as well as paper mockups on the ceiling for testing the overall pattern.
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The Upham House: Interior plasterwork for the living room ceiling - Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1992
Two photographs of the ceiling mock-up in paper, installed in the actual room, for testing the geometric pattern and its dimensions.
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The Upham House: Interior plasterwork for the living room ceiling - Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1992
Two photographs of the ceiling panels mock-ups; one of two finished test plaster panels with different patterns and the other of making a panel focusing on the width of pattern.
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The Upham House: Interior plasterwork for the living room ceiling - Photographs of mock-up
01/01/1992
Photograph of Randy Schmidt testing the ornament, while holding if diagonally, imagining the intersection of strips.
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Design and Construction is one Integrated Making Process
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Ornament and Function as Products of Unfolding
Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...