The Living Wood

The Living Wood

Author: Louis De Wohl

Publisher:

Published: 1947

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The author reconstructs the atmosphere of fourth-century Rome in this story of intrigue, romance, and power politics revolving around Helena, mother of Constantine, the first Christian emperor.


Living in Wood

Living in Wood

Author: Chris van Uffelen

Publisher: Braun Publishing AG

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783037682180

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Revealing the fascinating breath of both the architectural and the interior design possibilities inherent in this material from across the globe.


Living with Wood

Living with Wood

Author: Seri C. Robinson

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764359354

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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.


The Living Wood

The Living Wood

Author: Louis De Wohl

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2010-11-12

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1681495198

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The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumultuous times of the early Christian era in this story of intrigue, romance and power politics revolving around Helena, the devoted and saintly mother of Constantine, the first Christian emperor. This historical novel tells the story of the quest for the True Cross through fifty years of the most exciting events in Roman and Christian history. The narrative begins when the Tribune Constantius, a Roman officer stationed in Britain, meets and wins Helena, only daughter of the mystical and oracular King Coel of Britain. Through the course of their early lives together, and during their ten-year separation when Constantius returns to Britian as a conquering Caesar and Helena has become a rejected wife, devoted mother, and militant Christian, there is a sure and convincing portrayal of character growth and personal conflict. Helena's fierce determination to raise Constantine as a warrior son and her gradual discovery and dramatic acceptance of Christianity prepare her for the final miracle of her life discovery of the True Cross, the Living Wood on Calvary. The Living Wood is a chapter from the turbulent half-forgotten pages of early Christian history and legend in which the religious conflicts and problems are handled with moving simplicity. It is also an action-packed novel of those times-with a lesson for us today-that captures with equal skill and tumult and the shouting of the battlefield and the devious plots and counter-plots of the court.


Living with Wood

Living with Wood

Author: Wim Pauwels (Publisher)

Publisher: Beta-Plus (Acc)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789077213902

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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 Wood

Living Wood

Author: Mike Abbott

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780954234560

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First published in 2002, Living Wood is both a practical manual and an inspirational guide, updating much of the information included in Mike's best-selling book Green Woodwork. Living Wood covers: • Becoming a green woodworke--Mike's story, from playing in the woodlands to owning a share in a woodland in Herefordshire • Buying, managing, and harvesting a woodland; • Developing woodland facilities, including tracks, steps, huts, a barn, a kitchen, and a compost toilet • Setting up a woodland workshop--plans for a shelter and updated designs for a shaving horse, a pole lathe, and other green wood-working tools and devices • Making ladder-back chairs, including cleaving, steam-bending, and techniques for ultra-tight joints without glue • Seating chairs with bark and with cord • A comprehensive list of suppliers, woodland organizations, and books Now in its fourth edition, Living Wood includes a selection of photographs of Mike’s latest workshop at Brookhouse Wood.


Joanna Wood

Joanna Wood

Author: Joanna Wood

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2015-03-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791347370

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***DELAYED PUBLICATION NEW JACKET*** With a reputation built over 25 years, Joanna Wood is recognised as one of Britain's leading figures in interior design. Her practice, Joanna Trading, was the winner of Britain's 2012 Design and Architecture award. Now Joanna Wood invites readers inside the walls of some of the most sumptuous rooms ever created. From the ultimate home that has everything to a country residence for a young family; a classic English cottage to a newly built town house, she brings to each project her practiced eye and attention to detail, creating a classic style that combines traditional and contemporary elements to produce a result which is both practical and visually exciting. Along the way, the designer shares her own experiences, tips, and secrets that can help transform any room into a comfortable oasis. AUTHOR: Joanna Wood has been in the interior design business for nearly three decades. Her practice, Joanna Trading, has designed residences for private and commercial clients all over the globe. Sarah Edworthy formerly of the Daily Telegraph, read English at Oxford University and is an experienced journalist and author. She writes on a variety of subjects from lifestyle to sport, travel to arts and current affairs. SELLING POINTS: * This luxurious book on the interior designs of Joanna Wood takes readers inside a wide array of fabulous houses--from a hip London apartment to her own cosy retreat in a restored 10th-century barn. 320 colour illustrations


Living Dolls

Living Dolls

Author: Gaby Wood

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780571178797

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Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.


Surrounded by Wood

Surrounded by Wood

Author: Agata Toromanoff

Publisher: Braun Publishing

Published: 2021-02-22

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9783037682661

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Introducing the diversity of contemporary timber architecture for residential buildings to architects, interior designers, and builders.


Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Author: R. Tripp Evans

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0307594335

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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.”