Fantastic Art Deco Cornices​
The Design
Art Deco has bold, linear symmetry, sharp lines and steps. This makes it particularly suitable if you’re looking to your give a room a minimalist modern style. If this is what you want to achieve then we have the fibrous plaster Cornicing for you.
Why is Art Deco Popular
The Art Deco era {1920-1938} provided some classic examples of plaster cornice/covings and mouldings many in simple linear patterns and some occasional design quirks.
Most of the patterned Art Deco plaster cornice/coving designs have small repeats and crisp lines which dominated the Architecture of the time.
The History
During a time when the population of Great Britain was expanding rapidly, most Victorian houses were built on a speculative basis and despite being easily recognised now it should be remembered that they were actually built bit by bit over many decades.
This resulted in a great diversity amongst plaster cornice styles as the designs evolved throughout the Victorian era.
The Victorian cornice was markedly more ornate and grander than that in the Georgian period and following the development of fibrous plaster in the mid-1800s cornices started to creep progressively further across into the ceiling, creating new styles like swan neck coving.