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Personal Greeting Lauren Dillon

Master of Plaster Finishing Systems, Inc.

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Master of Plaster Finishing Systems, Inc.
Columbia Irmo, SC

Bio

Executive Designer for Master of Plaster Finishing Systems, Inc., one of the only remaining firms left to date that crafts historically authentic, all natural, slaked lime plasters. My expertise lies in ornamental as well as flat wall restoration/preservation and fabrication. Our plasters have graced the interiors of such grand estates as Orton Plantation and the Wentworth Mansion and as well have been used to restore such structures as Grand Central Station and Ellis Island. Truly phenomenal materials and of utmost importance - I focus on educating and sharing the knowledge on these unique skills and this dying art form. Materials science and structural compatibility is crucial to the well being and health of our inherited structures as well as those that we design and build today.

2011 IPTW Presenter - Lancaster, PA
2012/2013 NAPW Professional Female of the Year
2014/2015 Palladium Society Board Member

Specialty Training : The art of Scagliola, Gold Guilding, Sgraffito

Personal Project List :
Gibbes Museum of Art – Charleston, SC
4 South Battery Street – Charleston, SC
Louis Bacon Estate – North Carolina
Murdoch Estate – Long Island, NY
President’s Office, CofC – Charleston, SC
LongBrow Plantation – GreenPond, SC
Barnwell College, Historic Horseshoe – USC
McLeod Plantation – Charleston, SC
National Historic Register Site – Augusta, GA
Orton Plantation – Winnabow, NC

Education

University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Masters of Urban Design and Regional Planning, 2010
Specialization in Historic Preservation
2008 To 2010
Dissertation: Economics of HP in the evolution of a city's development

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
B. LAR, 2008
Urban Design
2003 To 2008
Advisor: Terry Clements

Job History

Master of Plaster Finishing Systems, Inc.
Executive Designer - Preservation Specialist
Columbia, SC, United States
August 2010 - present