Here's how the interior designer Michelle Gage designed every room of this family home to pay homage to its owners' ...

From a micro home in India to a fortress-like house in Greece, our latest roundup collects houses covered in earthy shades of plaster and render. Plaster and render are used to coat walls to create a ...

It was a hazy afternoon in Ibiza when Vardy and Engelhardt, decided to launch their joint practice. Spending time in Engelhardt’s garden on the Spanish island in 2017, they spoke about the idea of ...

The Kitchen Pantry Scientist, Liz Heineke, shares a simple recipe for making sidewalk chalk. (Make in a disposable container or large plastic bag. Plaster of Paris should not go down the drain!) Mix ...

Visakhapatnam: Preparations for Vinayaka Chaturthi are in full swing here, with artists crafting Ganesha idols made mainly of Plaster of Paris. Environmentalists expressed concern that the authorities ...

BENGALURU: With less than a month to go for the Ganesha festival, state government agencies, particularly the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), are yet to crackdown on Plaster of Paris ...

Bombay High Court on Thursday (July 24, 2025) directed lord Ganesh idols of up to six feet height to be “mandatorily” immersed in artificial tanks during the 10-day Ganesh festival starting from ...

THE thermal conductivity of powdered plaster of Paris was reported in 1896 by Lees and Chorlton 1. Their value of 0.00261 gm. cal./sec./deg C./cm. has since been incorporated into the literature of ...

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