Architectural columns ornamented with fluting—those ... But it wasn’t on our radar as a design option until we started noticing decorative grooves cropping up all over the house.

They’re composed of curved stucco gouged with decorative vertical lines, meant to make the columns fluted. The Barberes Sud villa was built nearly 2,000 years ago by Romans, near a road ...

Excavators found fragments of painted moldings and curved stucco meant to imitate fluted columns, made of curved stucco with decorative vertical lines. Other fragments from the site appear to have ...