Friezes
Friezes in plaster are beautiful decorations that can be used creatively to enhance both walls and ceilings, giving them personality, style, and elegance. They can be used individually or multiple friezes can be combined to create unique and original designs. Friezes are also suitable for highlighting a painting, a fresco, or another wall decorative element and are ideal for playing with colours, light, and shadow.
In ancient times, the frieze was a very important architectural component of Greek and Roman temples, forming the intermediate part between the architrave and the cornice at the upper part of the temple. Decorations, called metopes, were placed in the frieze, depicting legends, battles, and myths that were imprinted in historical memory and passed down to future generations.
Metope were traditionally interspersed with triglyphs, more geometric decorative elements consisting of three vertical grooves.
Nowadays, the frieze has a more artistic than architectural connotation: the frieze is a decoration used to complete a wall, a work of art, or a ceiling.
We like to imagine that an empty wall is like a painter’s white canvas, to be completed according to one's own imagination and tastes. Our plaster friezes help create effects and decorations that reflect the style and personality of each environment or room.
There are numerous decorative solutions, representing different artistic styles: swags, bows, and flowers for a romantic and shabby chic environment. Free corners, decorative friezes, and floral motifs are instead suitable for decorations inspired by classical or neoclassical styles.
Plaster friezes are perfect not only for creating evocative architecture that can shape any empty wall but also for embellishing or enhancing a fresco, a painting, or another structural element, such as an arch, a door, or a fireplace.
All our creations are made in Italy and individually inspected in our artisanal workshop to guarantee the highest quality and beauty of the work.