Refurbishment of this Victorian town house by Louise McDonnell of Architects MCD London provided an opportunity for Revival to manufacture and install enriched plaster cornices and centre  pieces to match the existing mouldings. Through opening up the Living Room to a create larger modern living space, this work created the need for the detailed Cornice to have the years of paint that  had filled up and blurred the pattern removed. Revival has invested in mechanising and speeding up this process. By spraying a vegetable based peel away system onto the mouldings and using a jet of steam to assist the paint removal the original details are uncovered at a faster rate with far less damage to the original mouldings than by hand. Uncovering the level of detail in the enrichments is incredibly satisfying! 

The mouldings were then copied in-situ by taking rubber ‘squeezes’. Models and silicon rubber moulds of all the cornices were created in the workshop from which the casts were manufactured and installed. Centre pieces were required to be replicated and were reproduced using a similar method as the cornices. Enriched capitals around the bay window had been damaged and were in need of refurbishment. Rubber ‘squeezes’ were taken and new enrichments cast using Jesmonite.

Architect MCD London