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Applying Marmorino Venetian Plaster to the Walls

Bob and Chris Vila meet with Jonas Everets, one of the interior designers working on the Brooklyn project. Everets is using a traditional Southern European plaster application called Marmorino on some of the penthouse walls. Marmorino, also known as Venetian Plaster, is a mixture of limestone and marble dust. It is generally trowelled by hand using a stainless-steel trowel as they are more rigid and can provide a thinner application. It can be applied over prepared drywall or traditional lathe and plaster systems. The color is added using dry oxide pigments. After two coats of plaster dry, a layer of Carnauba wax is added and burnished for shine.
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Applying Marmorino Venetian Plaster to the Walls

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" Tell us about marmorino what is it marmorino has lime based plaster that has sand and marble dust and it's an aged lime putty it's not a faux finish it's it's it's traditional don't know who's -- this. 1500 us Italy and southern Europe know how to get this color Jonas this here has stronger. -- somber and burnt sienna. And yellow -- and actually touched Venetian red can use regular paint pigments -- you cannot you have to use special oxide pigments are what other colors can you make. I can make any color you want. I custom mix every color. For each client. The brown that I'm looking at here is this a sample of what you're going to be doing on our -- this is this is -- this is exactly what we're house again today. Without wall to my right. When you can see the difference. So the wall has had one coat. And after a second coat will start to look like that second coat brings out the the highlights of the material that textures and texture and but it gets. It's actually smoother to the touch but visually much more nuanced and -- us what you get started over here. Well we use hawks like normal plasterers. We have small. -- small hard stainless steel blade -- we want rigidity here you want you want to very stiff sharp edge. Blade that gives you the ability to especially in the second coat. Because you're repressing. Second coat into the first coat and creating a burnish OK and bringing out all kinds of rough textured. Wants. Start on the corner and a little garden up in that area and then you get it wrong. Consciously or not and then it's taken off your arm. How thick do you apply. You want to it's closer you -- little thinner now. I can kind of get -- In the corner with a little less material to the."

" Jonas is there any particular pattern that you recommend for applying it in terms of this. Method is -- kind of circular motions yet but. Traditionally marmorino has -- Very nuanced surface so you -- your hand movement is changing from time. OK it's not a bad an artist. This drives will it lighten quite a bit. Yes marmorino -- Fred. Highlights -- the rope lines are being white. Really wants to come out -- ones come through now."

" Now fellas this will need about a day and a -- to really get dry -- And when it dries Jonas it's gonna look like this wall over here is gonna look exactly let's. Started on the second coat we -- can't just -- set up."

" Are you working a lot faster with the design -- I love this thing -- it's actually a slower. And it requires more effort."

" All right so when this dries you're gonna start to see all these different kind of ridges and differences in tones but what about the -- on the end of it well let me -- it. We have is a -- new relaxed. Which I'll apply a thin layer of exodus -- NN and we'll polish it later when strike. Using a tiny amount who's a little amount. You don't want too much. -- Bad spots if you're not careful. And then after the wax is applied there's a lot of hand burnishing right. We use -- we also have left. Him. Good thanks goes. Thank you."

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