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Paul Hardy

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Much bigger than this, and we can't get them through the internal doorways....

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Gorgeous Paul. It's nice to see a correctly dragooned site edge. So often these days here stateside only a single pattern of compo is used so the dragooning can't go both ways as is proper.

On my monitor it appears more gilt than leaf, or a best a mix. Which?
 
kdub said:
What is a dragooned site edge?
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I think Baer mis-typed. The front edge is 'gadrooned' which has been defined as 'a relief pattern consisting of a series of parallel, convex lobes projecting beyond the surface, or inverted fluting.' I think the pattern originated around the 16th century in silverware, but then spread to furniture, frames etc.

Paul Hardy
 
Paul Hardy said:
I think Baer mis-typed. The front edge is 'gadrooned' which has been defined as 'a relief pattern consisting of a series of parallel, convex lobes projecting beyond the surface, or inverted fluting.' I think the pattern originated around the 16th century in silverware, but then spread to furniture, frames etc.

Paul Hardy
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Thanks. Learn something every day. I was wondering because when I googled it, it came up with something military (name for a troop from somewhere, I think)
 
That is magnificent

There is nothing that can take away from how well that looks. However I couldn't help but wonder if two Framers i know still are LURKING around on TFG. If so they could surely share some Gold leafing stories and maybe a picture or two. The first is Larry Filaberto who used to own and operate Arcade art in N. O. until he moved to North Carolina with Zinsel. Larry didn't only Gold leaf production Mldg. But he sometimes was known to stack wood together to produce profiles of his own for leafing. he once did this for a Hugh frame for the Cabildo Museum in the French Quarter , The Canvas was too valuable and too big to bring to his shop so he took the measurements made the mldg and then did the leafing and assembled the frame on sight and fitted it there. i think it measured about 15 feet wide by 10 feet high and the stacked mldg. profile was somewhere around 6-8 inches wide, and a bout 3 inches thick. he also produced Beveled Mirror that was about 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall with all sorts of compo embellishments includeing a hanging garland of squash blossoms from the two obelisk corners of the Tabernacle style frame. The other is the guy who took over the shop that Larry left to form Arcade/AtoZ art Allan Zimmer and his wife Karen. Thay run probaly the best shop in N.O> IMHO and Allan 's Leafing hasn't missed a beat from where Larry left off. In fact I'd love to see the two of them compete but hate like #### to be the judge.

So I know what a prize that is and just wonder if any of you leafers know either Larry or Allan, and if you do you should try to get them to teach, as well you should also. I know I did try to get both of them to and would again.

BUDDY
 
I see that you had to rip the wall of your shop down. Was that to get this frame out of the workroom, or is there a bigger brother lurking around the corner we haven't seen yet!

Beautifully crafted frame BTW!
 
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