Another company seeking market share is Sider-Oxydro, a 30-year-old French firm whose only American plant is in Hawkinsville, Ga . It makes an exterior finish product that is hosed or troweled onto a house.
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Even the texture and color of the walls, newly troweled with gray plaster, is seductive; the overall effect seems to illustrate a point made by David Anfam, a leading Rothko scholar, about one of what the artist called his dark pictures.
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In the section titled " The Changing City, " we are are confronted by Bellows's dark hulking paintings of excavation sites, including one for Pennsylvania Station, in which the paint is troweled on in strokes so thick that they resemble the earth itself.
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The stucco had been troweled _ and retroweled _ on a classic Mediterranean-style movie star mansion that desperately needed renovation, but the bones were there : a double-height living room with a stone fireplace, overlooking a swimming pool and an 80-foot waterfront.
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Notable examples of dry mixture mortars which utilize methyl cellulose include : tile adhesives, EIFS, insulating plasters, hand-troweled and machine-sprayed plaster, stucco, self-leveling flooring, extruded cement panels, skim coats, joint & crack fillers, and tile grouts.
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Colored EPDM granules are mixed with polyurethane binders and troweled or sprayed onto concrete, asphalt, screenings, interlocking brick, wood, etc . to create a non-slip, soft, porous safety surface for wet-deck areas such as pool decks and as safety surfacing under playground play equipment ( designed to help lessen fall injury ).
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In photographs of thickly troweled monoliths, enclosures of shadowy grillwork similar to the gridded cage or a succession of post-and-lintel arches evocative of Kiefer's large architectural images, Ms . Iglesias evokes a flimsy monumentality that is mysterious and mock-heroic and that reduces the grand ambitions of sculptors and architects to child's play.
