Wednesday 24 April 2019

Fake 67

An entrance to a very city style courtyard, round the back of the Vinotec operation noticed at reference 2.

Some part of the Google operation in the red building, its sign being blocked by the young tree coming into leaf.

Faked for the fake strap work moulded onto the outer surface of the black pillars. I forgot to check but I expect the pillars are fakes too in the sense that what you see is casings rather than structural pillar. They might even be concrete inside. Who knows?

The pillars themselves work quite well, but the architectural detail man did not get the junction between the pillars and the ceiling right. Plain butt not good and some sort of modest trim is needed, as his Victorian & Edwardian predecessors knew perfectly well. I suppose he could pull the pillars out of some pattern book, but trim required some thought and he was not paid enough for that.

As it happens the last fake, noticed at reference 1, was about pillars too, or at least pilasters.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/fake-66.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/04/kings-cross.html.

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