Stucco mouldings were known in Ancient Egypt. And in antique Greece columns and  facades of the buildings quite often were covered by relief ornaments, and today in many houses  of ÕIÕ - and the beginning of ÕÕ centuries we can  meet the  samples of stucco moulding . Today the special style of the decors experiences the second birth. To any premise, even to a typical apartment, it gives individuality and nobleness. Ceiling centres, cornices, monograms, pilasters, vases, spheres, and patchwork objects - the variety of reliefs is boundless. Stucco mouldings decorate walls and ceilings.

Modern stucco mouldings are sold as separate modules and elements, from which, you can form a composition which appropriates to the style and features of that or other interior and taste. It is possible to load by a relief all surfaces and planes, that anywhere did not remain of a smooth place or, on the contrary, to be limited with the modest ceiling centre and refined cornice under a ceiling. Asymmetric arrangements of reliefs are looked very effectively.

For business offices and studies will perfectly approach geometrical figures (circles, squares, triangles, ovals). It is possible to decorate by the stucco moulding opposite corners of a room or to put on length of a premise one ornament and completely another - on width. As to colours, the opportunities are boundless: the marshmallow-white reliefs are perfectly combined with pastel shades and especially gentle - pink, is pale - olive, gentle - light-blue and ivory color. Stucco moulding gives the unlimited opportunities for tests.

Technology of manufacturing and materials

Today the technological principle of creation ornaments both is simple, and is combined. With original ornament remove the form, which represents as though "negative" volumetric image of the original. From this form casting the necessary quantity of recurrences precisely reproducing the original. For reception qualitative castings they use a number of materials capable to pass from a liquid condition in firm without formation of cracks and large shrinkage. First of all, it is plaster, papier-mache, cement, less  - metal.
The new time has presented the manufacturers of stucco mouldings, architects, designers the new materials: fiber glass, glass composite, polystyrene and  foamed polyurethane.

Classical stucco moulding is made of plaster by  casting or pressing and  then it is attached to surfaces. Recently on sale have appeared various ornaments made of especially easy materials – polyurethane and foamed plastic. They are rather practical in application, more than are accessible in the price. They can  be used in typical apartments or rented offices. Plastic stucco moulding is made of polyurethane foam, which coagulates in this or that form. A product usually cover with a film and white acrylic grounding. Polyurethane products are very stable. They begin to melt under the temperature 300. They cannot be sodden.They  do not absorb the smells and dust. Polyurethane ornament is used as for internal, and external furnish.

The assortment of polyurethane stucco mouldings is rather various: cornices, mouldings, domes, garlands, wall decor, ceiling centres, pediments, columns and half-columns, pilasters. For the installation polyurethane glue or  "liquid nails " are used. Before the installation all the details are necessary to sustain in the same conditions, in what they will be maintained for several days.

The advantages:
- Simplicity and cheapness of installation;
- Wide range of models (as smooth, and with figure).

Besides polyurethane decor elements:
- Are strong and light in weight;
- Are not hygroscopic;
- Are steady for temperatures;
- Do not absorb the smells.

Decor of walls and ceilings by decorative elements of the various forms and figures is an ancient architectural tradition. Speaking about "stucco moulding" we represent the magnificent palaces, museums, manors to ourselves. This beauty has always required a lot of means and never was an ornament of huts. Only last decades due to occurrence of rather inexpensive and practical polymeric materials it has managed to enter modern European habitation.

With the spreading of spacious and high apartments, qualitative country habitation in Russia you can meet now the usage of relief architectural decor. As we have already mentioned above, stucco moulding is sold as separate modules and elements.
The cornices, plinths, mouldings produce many domestic and foreign firms. They offer cornices not only as a decor of connections between a wall and ceiling, but also for hiding places of fastening the curtains, and cornices for the latent illumination.

The tape lighting devices settle down inside the cornices. They are protected with a layer of a foil. The cornices with the latent illumination create effect of "soaring" ceiling, and visualy lift it. With the mouldings you can decorate furniture, frames for mirrors, door, and also the walls. For the wall decor we concern medallions - smooth, in vignettes, cartouches or with flower decor inside. Garlands which are simulating laurels antique, interwined with tapes, fasten under the cornices, in the top part of the walls. The arch frame is made from standard parts, combining which it is possible effectively and elegantly to issue space inside a niche, door aperture, and also book shelfs, bar etc.

Corner decor elements will give the completeness of door apertures. The frame of a door is made out with the mouldings of the same style.  Above the window it can fasten figured by pediment. With the panels it is possible to decorate planes of doors. It will give them a classical, solemn sight. Combining various panels, plinth and window surround, it is possible to give classical shape to the most ordinary doors and walls.

The superimposed niches can be combined according to an own plan. For illumination of such niches the bottom is made of dim white plexiglas, under which establish the fixture. The columns, half-column, pilasters are offered of different styles - Ionic, Doric, Corinthian. Caps, trunks of columns, the bases, and also pedestals under bases are delivered separately, and they can be varied. The pedestals and arms are intended for sculptures, decorative vases, bouquets, candlesticks and other accessories.

The arms can serve a support to book shelfs and mantlepieces, window sills etc. Ceiling centres are used together with lusters. For this purpose in the centre of the socket is carried out  the aperture for wires and elements of fastening . The domes are used for the decoration the space of a ceiling. It can be painted. It is possible to hang up a luster inside. Perfectly composed architectural decor enriches and completely changes art - plastic image of an interior, as though "ennobles" its image, transforming a usual inhabited premise in a cosy and beautiful apartments.