EC-8303C8 / EC-8308-8 / EC-8302-8 114'' Tall Polyurethane Full Ionic Column

Full three piece polyurethane columns are not structural, they are decorative. To create a structural column from these beautiful parts, simply install with a steel ready-rod or alternative support up the center.

This smooth tapered column column comes with a Dorique Capital and the base as shown.

IONIC COLMUNS
Ionic columns are identified by the scroll-shaped ornaments at the capital, which resemble a ram's horns. The Ionic column rests on a rounded base. Ionic shafts are taller than Doric ones. This makes the columns look slender. They also had flutes carved into them from top to bottom of the column shaft. The shafts had a special characteristic: entasis, which is a little bulge in the columns to make them look straight, even at a distance. Since you would see the building from eye level, the shafts would appear to get narrower as they rise. This bulge allows for the illusion that the columns are straight. The frieze is plain. The bases were large and looked like a set of stacked rings. Ionic capitals consist of scrolls above the shaft. The Ionic style is a little more decorative than the Doric. The spreading scroll-shaped capital is the distinctive feature of the Ionic order. It was primarily a product of Asia Minor, where early embryonic forms of this capital have been found. In the Ionian colonies of Greece on the southwestern shores of Asia Minor, the Ionic order had attained a full development in the 6th cent. B.C.

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