Plans are for The Firm to develop a cartoon series and plaster the bears on calendars and greeting cards.
"Mash up a ripe avocado and plaster it over your face for 15 minutes - you'll smell like a chicken salad but your skin will feel revitalised, " reckoned Coombe.
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race.
It also said there was damage to wall and ceiling plaster and wooden panelling inside.
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The church smelled of candle wax and wet plaster, and most of the space had been sectioned off with scaffolds, leaving a high-ceilinged room the size of a small cellar.
Houman would introduce Willis to masters of other crafts, including zellige (glazed tile mosaic), gebs (carved and incised white plaster) and mashrabiya (intricately carved cedar for pierced screens).
Stout oak beams underpin the roof and rough plaster lines the walls, while an antique ceramic stove pumps out warmth and shuttered windows peep onto the moonlit courtyard.
"Look at Ernie's beautiful house by the 16th hole with his thatched roof and superb plaster work, " continued Casey.
Next door, Ms. Helfand, though known for her contemporary designs, restored and preserved ornamental plaster details in the ceilings, and saved old molding and etched glass pocket doors in the living room.
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There are many, like fresco secco (painted on dry plaster) and buon fresco (painted on wet plaster).
One maalem (or master craftsman), in particular, opened many doors for the decorator: Ma'alem Houman, who was skilled in the brickwork and tadelakt (a glazed plaster mixed with pigment and soap) that Willis brought out of the hammam (or bathhouse) and into Moorish interiors.
The couple were pointing out spots in the plaster and on the roof that needed fixing.
The juxtaposition was pithy, and there was a catchy visual contrast between the heap of colored fabric and naked white plaster.
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Rather than cheap plaster and vinyl siding, makers of upscale factory housing use everything from precast concrete panels to building materials recycled from soybeans and newsprint.
It included bricks, plastic, wood, glass, plaster and insulation fibres.
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The frieze, a mix of honey-coloured marble panels and glaring white plaster casts of pieces in the BM, shows a procession of worshippers carrying offerings to Athena, the temple goddess.
Outside, the terraced garden of olive trees seems especially peaceful, while from atop the hill behind the house, The Christ of Trash (a large sculpture that looks exactly like it sounds) and the white plaster eggs that top the walls can be seen.
And beyond the car companies stand a host of oil, tobacco, banking and consumer-goods firms that plaster their decals on cars and on trackside posters.
Small breaks and rough surfaces are eliminated by plaster of clay or lime, and then painted.
Head, arms, legs, front torso and back torso had been moulded separately round his body in plaster of Paris and were now fitted separately to him, like a knight's armour.
Within the high-ceilinged rooms, with their battered colonial mantels and broken decorations of Adam designs in plaster, governors had come and gone, and ambassadors of kings had schemed and danced.
He has washed and kissed the feet of women and Muslims, inscribed his autograph on plaster casts of injured pilgrims and has even telephoned his old Buenos Aires news vendor to cancel his newspaper order.
They quieted down the tiled fireplace by removing the tile and adding gray Venetian plaster.
The walls were finished with sound-absorbing plaster, and the ceiling is made of cypress stained a rich brown hue.
More mundanely, do-it-yourself enthusiasts will be able to use it to check for power cables and pipes beneath the plaster before they start drilling.
The fourth side was partly closed by a high wall, surmounted by jagged edges of broken glass set firmly in old lime plaster, and pierced in its center by a wide entrance-way.
An open double parlor, beautiful (but not fussy) plaster cornices and medallions, aged pine floors, and 7 restored limestone mantels are just a few of the special details of this magnificent house.
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