15. THE LAST PLASTER SHOP: Ornamental Plasterer Lorna Kollmeyer on preserving Victorian San Francisco, the business of a rare trade, and becoming a living archive
In this episode of The Trades Show, host Briana Ottoboni sits down with Lorna Kollmeyer, a sculptor, mold maker, and caster of ornamental plaster who owns the last plaster shop in San Francisco, inside her studio at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Their conversation traces how the whole trade fell into Lorna's lap — from a young basketball star who landed in San Francisco in her early twenties with no plan, enchanted by a city where no two Victorians looked alike, to the couple restoring Victorian flats who taught her to strip originals and pour her own molds, to the day someone asked if she…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.