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Architects/Stucco Quote — Columns and Window Dressings

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

With the aid of a few columns stuck here and there, or rich window dressings and rustications in another place, and aided by the fatal facility of stucco, they managed to get over an immense amount of space with a very slight expenditure of thought.

James Fergusson (1808 – 1886)
British writer
Referring to contemporary architects, such as John Nash (1752-1835).

History of Architecture, 1862.