No_6_April_1963 — Page 119

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AGRICOLTURE IN CHINE.

FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW

A Weekly Journal of Trade, Industry, Finance, Transport and Public Affairs in East and South Asia Volume XXXIX No. 7

New Surfaces for Old

By Our Correspondent

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now going up in uncompromisingly SO MANY OF the building office and residential Hongkong is functional that Corbusier himself might have shuddered. The ugly shapes, the rigid lines, the flat and unadorned sur- faces cry out for some concession to grace and style. Many of the un- prepossessing slabs could be greatly im- proved if their lines were softened by a fresco or even just a little colour.

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There should be scope then for the architects of the Colony to make use of new decorative techniques, some of which were demonstrated a few days ago at the City Hall by W. R. Loxley & Co., the Hongkong agents for the "Glamorock" range of "natural stone wall decorations". These preparations are made from South African rock.

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can be The two rougher-textured preparations- "Trowlon" and "Gemstone'

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selection of natural and coloured finishes obtainable, although when is natural rock forms the main colouring of the finish it is sometimes difficult to standardise tones and so obtain an exact match.

simply plastered with a trowel onto a wall, exterior or interior, where they dry quickly and bind firmly. The result is a most attractive surfacing which looks remarkably solid although the application is less than 1/8 th" thick. A fair

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has been reduced to The rock in the third preparation- "Brushon" powder so that the surfacing can, as its name implies, simply be painted on.

"Gemstone", for example, These preparations are Hongkong. has been used very effectively in the "panelling" design on the So Uk Housing Estate.

The preparations can

also be used to renew old exteriors; there are many peeling, shabby buildings in the Colony which could with advantage be renewed and enlivened by the use of such modern decorative techniques.

Loxleys also presented "Arborite" a decorative laminate surfacing material for interior walls and furnishings, manu- factured in Canada. New additions to non-glossy" texture" wood- the already wide range include the fashionable grains.

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