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specialties with stucco figures of Hindu Divine beings and Goddesses, British
advocates, vegetation, fauna, legendary manifestations, geometric designs,
etc., columns with capitals (western Doric to Indian conventional), different
sorts of curves, turrets, and a colour plot utilizing earthenware, white, yellow,
ruddy and blue. This set up a special engineering character which can be
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named as the Chettinadu fashion. The houses are characterized by wonderful
wood work seen within the entryways and within the columns and brackets
that encompass the patios utilizing Burma teak, rose wood and satinwood.
Most consideration is given to the limit with highly carved and enhanced
jambs, lintels, boards. The extended lintel board over the most entryway
delineates different iconographies from Hindu mythology. Dividers were of
prepared bricks laid by gifted artisans and secured with Chettinadu mortar
and flooring was given with nearby Aathangudi tiles unconventional as it
were to this locale. Add are adorned with Chinese ceramic and neighborhood
tiles, imported Italian marble, Belgian glasswork, stoneware and ironware.
(Figure : https://images.app.goo.gl/fPUerrEd6oiwqtZ98 )
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