the Decoration on the Norrbackagatan 22 has been the subject of several articles over the years. I helped myself with two pieces in march 2012 when I called the characters above the gate of the cherubim. A reader pointed out that it was a putto on either side of the gate and not the cherub.
Apart from this, it was perhaps not the word that it was material in this context without it the characters had between their legs. Generous was the word.
And it was also a prank signed the builders in connection with the fasadrenoveringen in 1988, which resulted in these long technique for cutting.
trimmed again, and suddenly the figures away. For good, you can wonder, but that is not the case.
Norrbackagatan 22 after the recent renovation. Not a putto as far as the eye can reach. Photo: Eva-Karin Gyllenberg
I called up Staffan Peterson, a board member and past president of the association Fajansen 8, to hear what happened with the characters.
– The old barge was so bad-the coverage of weather and wind so it was impossible to have that model when we would make an imprint, ” says Staffan and says that the question was up as late as the other day.
both the many and long about how to proceed with the decoration.
“We have been looking for a stucco craft that can make the new medallions, but we have not found any,” says Staffan and stresses that you want to have the same characters as before, but then he corrects himself:
– ALMOST the same, ” he says, and I think I hear a little laughter in your phone.
Staffan mean, of course, that the figures looked like before the renovation in 1988.
well-Equipped putto on Norrbackagatan 22 before the renovation. Photo: Eva-Karin Gyllenberg
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