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Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.

Date11/8/1983
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  • Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126194F
Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
Alderman Ben Grys. He denies he was involved in a conflict of interest over mortgages his wife held on a developer's property
City council members
6/23/1971
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
James, Norman
7/15/1970
Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
Bank site today. Toronto-Dominion Bank as it looks today. Building will be torn down to make way for a soaring 55 storey structure. Developers hope th(...)
James, Norman
11/6/1962
See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
See-through structure: The building that encloses the limestone rockface was designed to blend with its surroundings and allow visitors to see the carvings as they came near
Faught, Ken
4/29/1985
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
Exquisite work Stanley Hill of the Six Nations reserve of Brantford, artist whose bone carvings are on exhibit at the Christel Galleries of Fine Art, (...)
Dunlop, Al
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Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
Bill Dendy: Author and architectural historian with relief carvings outside post office building on Bay St.
Spremo, Boris
6/29/1987
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
Eskimo hunters chisel soapstone carvings representing their northern life
Darrell, Dick
9/28/1965
Text in varied font type, framed with a line border. Small illustration of maker's mark or shie ...
Wood fibro carvings: catalogue no. 9, section no. 1
John Walter & Sons
Approximately 1900s
The devilish developers. Not all apartment developers are horned and tailed perils, East York Reeve True Davidson said last night. She told 125 member(...)
The devilish developers. Not all apartment developers are horned and tailed perils, East York Reeve True Davidson said last night. She told 125 member(...)
Davidson, True, 1901-1978
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Country colors: Blue and white French cottons brighten broadcast editor Micki Moore's home office, which does double duty as a guest room
Country colors: Blue and white French cottons brighten broadcast editor Micki Moore's home office, which does double duty as a guest room
Bull, Ron
12/12/1987
Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
Great mix: German designer Otto Kern, posing with two of his models, is doing printed silks and cottons for spring
Beaty, Keith
10/15/1992
Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
Large photo, top thee bolts are snappy cottons from IKEA, $9 to $14 per metre
Beaty, Keith
9/8/1987