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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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