“The Lady” surfaces

One of our clients, Lissa Paul, has a lovely Facts & Arguments piece in today’s Globe and Mail on a bit of residential archeology that came to light during our recent renovation of her Victorian home in Toronto. When drywall was stripped away, a delicate pencil drawing of a fashionable young woman of the 1920s surfaced on the the original plaster of what had once been the servant’s passage. Our clients have no idea who “The Lady” is, but they knew they wanted to keep this mystery flapper in their lives. PLANT set a glass-covered frame into what is now a powder room wall to expose the portion of the plaster surface that bears her portrait.