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Article: Plaster as High Art Ken Wildes' fanciful ceilings revive a lost tradition
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 16, 1995
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CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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BELLINGHAM -- Ken Wildes is an ornamental plasterer. Ceilings and
walls are his playground. Working with rubber molds and tools of his
own devising, as well as a cake decorating set, he turns out cupids
and lovebirds, scallop shells and apple blossoms. He makes garlands
of roses, ropes of laurel, sheaves of wheat. Plaster ribbons
flutter, beading swoops, ivy twines. Columns stand sentry. Acanthus
leaves, stiff with importance, hold up ceilings. When Ruth Pointer
of the soul-singing Pointer Sisters wanted a very special ceiling for
her piano room, Wildes obliged with portrait plaques of Mozart and
Beethoven and bouquets of classical music instruments.
Installing the 3,000 bits of plaster ...
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