Living with Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living with Wood write by Seri C. Robinson. This book was released on 2020. Living with Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book covers fundamental wood anatomy, wood chemistry and the best ways to utilize and care for wood in the kitchen, in furniture and in toys.
Living with Wood
Living with Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living with Wood write by Wim Pauwels (Publisher). This book was released on 2008. Living with Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wood has very many positive attributes as a natural construction material, but was for a long time neglected in the architecture of western Europe. However, this situation has changed a great deal over the course of recent decades. Construction with wood has gained a solid reputation and is seen as a valid alternative to traditional building with bricks. Wood also offers many advantages: processing it is both energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, the construction time is short, and it is a very durable material. Many wooden constructions have withstood the test of time over hundreds of years. The most important reason for selecting wood, though, is the pleasant atmosphere enjoyed by owners of wooden houses. This also applies when wood is used as an essential element of an interior: floors, panelling and fitted cabinetwork create a welcoming feeling of warmth and cosiness in a home. This book features many inspiring examples of both houses and interiors: homes constructed out of wood and also traditional brick buildings where wood occupies a prominent position inside the house.
Living in Wood
Living in Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living in Wood write by Chris van Uffelen. This book was released on 2017. Living in Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revealing the fascinating breath of both the architectural and the interior design possibilities inherent in this material from across the globe.
Surrounded by Wood
Surrounded by Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surrounded by Wood write by Agata Toromanoff. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Surrounded by Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introducing the diversity of contemporary timber architecture for residential buildings to architects, interior designers, and builders.
Grant Wood
Grant Wood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grant Wood write by R. Tripp Evans. This book was released on 2010-10-05. Grant Wood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He claimed to be “the plainest kind of fellow you can find. There isn’t a single thing I’ve done, or experienced,” said Grant Wood, “that’s been even the least bit exciting.” Wood was one of America’s most famous regionalist painters; to love his work was the equivalent of loving America itself. In his time, he was an “almost mythical figure,” recognized most supremely for his hard-boiled farm scene, American Gothic, a painting that has come to reflect the essence of America’s traditional values—a simple, decent, homespun tribute to our lost agrarian age. In this major new biography of America’s most acclaimed, and misunderstood, regionalist painter, Grant Wood is revealed to have been anything but plain, or simple . . . R. Tripp Evans reveals the true complexity of the man and the image Wood so carefully constructed of himself. Grant Wood called himself a farmer-painter but farming held little interest for him. He appeared to be a self-taught painter with his scenes of farmlands, farm workers, and folklore but he was classically trained, a sophisticated artist who had studied the Old Masters and Flemish art as well as impressionism. He lived a bohemian life and painted in Paris and Munich in the 1920s, fleeing what H. L. Mencken referred to as “the booboisie” of small-town America. We see Wood as an artist haunted and inspired by the images of childhood; by the complex relationship with his father (stern, pious, the “manliest of men”); with his sister and his beloved mother (Wood shared his studio and sleeping quarters with his mother until her death at seventy-seven; he was forty-four). We see Wood’s homosexuality and how his studied masculinity was a ruse that shaped his work. Here is Wood’s life and work explored more deeply and insightfully than ever before. Drawing on letters, the artist’s unfinished autobiography, his sister’s writings, and many never-before-seen documents, Evans’s book is a dimensional portrait of a deeply complicated artist who became a “National Symbol.” It is as well a portrait of the American art scene at a time when America’s Calvinistic spirit and provincialism saw Europe as decadent and artists were divided between red-blooded patriotic men and “hothouse aesthetes.” Thomas Hart Benton said of Grant Wood: “When this new America looks back for landmarks to help gauge its forward footsteps, it will find a monument standing up in the midst of the wreckage . . . This monument will be made out of Grant Wood’s works.”
