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Re: stone cutting edge
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Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:20:50 -0400
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In a message dated 6/29/2004 5:58:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> "Each block of the  rusticated stonework on the Newbold
> house is ...
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> ...curved at the corners, like stacks of pillows....

Sounds Baroque to me, and like something unique.

Are we talking new construction and some idiot kid's (or Robt AM Stern's) idea of how to cut stone, or has it got some age to it, so it was designed by somebody who presumably knew what the hell s/he was doing, and it's just WE who don't understand it?

Ralph

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