[Usittne] Attempting to find a place which manufactures foam columns

[Michael Katz]

Patrick,
You might try outwater supply, but I suspect that if the fluting and  
taper are required, you will have to build the columns, Perhaps a  
wood frame with a skin of bending luan and the seam up the back  
(easiest to do if the seam does not meet but is open) then apply  
strips of cove molding or route a flute into bead foam sheets and  
taper rip and  apply that, Cover it all with foam or sculpture coat  
and call it a column.
There used to be a foam fabricator in RI who like to do silly things  
for theater, but I can not
remember who they are,

-----
Michael Katz
mkatz at mit.edu
Technical Director
MIT Theater Arts
Rinaldi Production Center
34 Carleton St E33-101
Cambridge MA 02139
617.253.0824 Desk
617.258.7149 Fax

Lunacy Abounds


On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Pat Brooks wrote:

> Hello everyone my name is Pat Brooks and I'm a student Technical  
> Director at Salem State College. We're doing a production of  
> Antigone this fall and I need some help locating a few items for  
> our set. The hardest thing to find at the moment is a company who  
> can make us some foam tapered and fluted together columns. These  
> columns have an 18 in Diameter base and taper to a 12 in diameter  
> at the top and are approx 9' tall. All of the companies i've run  
> across thus far can do one or the other either tapered or fluted  
> but not both together. We used to get these from Apache before they  
> went out of business. If anyone knows of any companies which do  
> this kind of column creation please let me know of them or if  
> anyone happens to have some that we may perhaps borrow that would  
> be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks for any and all help that  
> you may be able to give.
>
>
>
>
> Patrick Brooks
> Student Technical Director
> Antigone
> Salem State College
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