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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Obscure Architectural Term of the Day!

COADE STONE. Artificial cast stone invented and successfully marketed in the 1770s by Mrs Eleanor Coade, and later by Coade and Sealy of London. It was widely used in the late C18 and early C19 for all types of ornamentation.

From the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition.

Well now, here's your complete bio of Mrs. Coade and her stone, which also has some very nice photographs of the various objects made by her company.


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