After notes are taken, secure, if possible, a cut of the building from the stationery or advertising matter of the tenants or owners, and with these as a basis project your scheme of decoration. If a sketch must be made, adhere rigidly to the architectural proportions of the building, and be careful not to show streamers or festoons where your workmen would require wings to place them and glue to stick them in position.
The methods of disposing decorations for exterior work differ according to taste, and no hard and fast rule can be laid down as to what is and is not proper. We illustrate in Figure [39], on the opposite page, a few of the different designs which are most frequently used.
This building possesses most decided natural advantages, and the whole decoration could be carried out completely in any one of the different styles suggested in the illustration.
On the ground floor elevation we illustrate a number of columns resting on a square base and surmounted by an illuminated globe. The plinth (see detail Figure [40]) is a square box covered with cotton stretched smoothly and tacked on the back or bottom to conceal the tacks.
The torus is a circular piece of board a little less in diameter than the top surface of the plinth, covered with cotton, also drawn tightly and tacked underneath.
FESTIVAL DECORATIONS
FIGURE 39. SEE TEXT ON OPPOSITE PAGE.
The framework of the shaft is made as Figure [40A]. Two pieces of board are nailed together V-shape, and finished at each end with a circular piece of board the diameter you desire your shaft to be; this frame is covered with cotton pleated from end to end, as figure 40B.