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January 25, 2007

Seattle man sculpts plaster into a niche business

  • Mead Powers was so inspired by a 1981 restoration of the Olympic Hotel that he quit his job to make plaster architectural elements.
    • By TERRY STEPHENS
    Special to the Journal

    Photos courtesy of Mead Powers
    Custom-designed crown molding with a grapevine motif was installed in an older home.

    THE 1981 RESTORATION of Seattle's Olympic Hotel made dramatic changes in the venerable landmark but it also made dramatic changes in commercial photographer Mead Powers' business career.


     
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