Smiling with satisfaction, Earl Barthe pushes back his wide-brimmed hat and runs his eyes over the intricate plaster trim of the Luling Mansion. He's sure that his family helped form the room's ...

Vernon Anthony Abadie, a master lather and plasterer whose work was spotlighted in a 2002 show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 74. Mr. Abadie, a lifelong resident ...

Sometimes, on a nice afternoon, Jeff Poree drives by the Peristyle in City Park, where he and his workers spent three months in 2012, resurfacing every bit of the century-old ceiling and ionic columns ...

Smiling with satisfaction, Earl Barthe pushes back his wide-brimmed hat and runs his eyes over the intricate plaster trim of the Luling Mansion. He's sure his family helped form the room's original ...

NEW ORLEANS — Smiling with satisfaction, Earl Barthe pushes back his wide-brimmed hat and runs his eyes over the intricate plaster trim of the Luling Mansion. He’s sure his family helped form the room ...

Earl Barthe, whose family of skilled craftsmen were plasterers in New Orleans since the mid 1800s, has died. Barthe died Monday at home. He was 87. “He was never sick,” Barthe’s daughter, Trudy Barthe ...

It's tiring and tedious work. Standing on a scaffold 10 metres above the floor, arms stretched overhead, Jean-François Furieri inspects the intricately hand-carved plaster ceilings and mouldings he's ...

NEW ORLEANS - Smiling with satisfaction, Earl Barthe pushes back his wide-brimmed hat and runs his eyes over the intricate plaster trim of the Luling Mansion. He's sure his family helped form the room ...

WHANGANUI ON TOP: Master plasterers Sean Martin and Samuel Roach show the national awards they won last week. PHOTO/STUART MUNRO Whanganui tradesmen shone in the Resene Rockcote Plastering Awards in ...