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Nick Brown is president of Vero Fine Italian Finishes and Merlex Stucco. Born in Sydney, Australia, Nick immigrated to the U.S. in 1979, and lives in Southern California, where stucco and plaster are predominant. He can be reached at (714) 637-1700.
For those who are open to plaster as more versatile than just Tuscan and Mediterranean looks, there are endless ways to use Venetian plaster in support of modern architecture.
Call me a rock nerd but lime amazes me. It's not just that lime reacts so violently when slaked with water. Or that limestone, like gypsum, goes from limestone rock to lime and back to limestone form again in a circular chemical process.