Designing with Wood

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WOOD
The Creative Touch
Wood is treasured around the world both as a structural material and for the warmth and natural beauty it brings to our living spaces. Ideal in both contemporary and traditional settings, it can be beautifully simple or exquisitely ornate.
Author Carol Soucek King celebrates the splendor of wood and its seemingly endless varieties in magnificent homes throughout the world. Sumptuous photographs showcase the clean lines of seamless tongue-and-groove paneling, the complexity of intricate inlays, and the craftsmanship of fine cabinetry. Woods such as amaranth, ash, pear, mahogany, bamboo, walnut and fir have been waxed, stained, painted, carved, lacquered or ebonized. The result is a collection of traditional methods of working with wood as well as inspirational new ideas for ceilings, floors, walls, doors, moldings, decks and detailing.
International in scope, Designing With Wood is a superb interior idea book and comprehensive resource for... Tovább

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designing
WOOD
The Creative Touch
Wood is treasured around the world both as a structural material and for the warmth and natural beauty it brings to our living spaces. Ideal in both contemporary and traditional settings, it can be beautifully simple or exquisitely ornate.
Author Carol Soucek King celebrates the splendor of wood and its seemingly endless varieties in magnificent homes throughout the world. Sumptuous photographs showcase the clean lines of seamless tongue-and-groove paneling, the complexity of intricate inlays, and the craftsmanship of fine cabinetry. Woods such as amaranth, ash, pear, mahogany, bamboo, walnut and fir have been waxed, stained, painted, carved, lacquered or ebonized. The result is a collection of traditional methods of working with wood as well as inspirational new ideas for ceilings, floors, walls, doors, moldings, decks and detailing.
International in scope, Designing With Wood is a superb interior idea book and comprehensive resource for desig^ners, architects and anyone who wants to build, buy, renovate or remodel a home.
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Dr. Carol Soucek King has long been interested in the ability ofthe arts to uplift and empower human life. To provide an ongoing forum for the arts she has established The Institute of Philosophy and the Arts at her home in Pasadena, California. From there she has written At Home &At Work: Architects' and Designers' Empowered Spaces (1993; first released as Empowered Spaces), Furniture: Architects' and Designers' Originals (1994), Designing With Tile, Stone & Brick: The Creative Touch (1995), and this book, her second focusing on the uses of specific materials in architecture and interior design. All of Dr. King's books demonstrate her belief in the crucial role played by the environmental design arts in humankind's physical and mental well-being.
As editor-in-chief from 1978 to 1993 oi Designers West, at that time one of the world's leading interior design publications. Dr. King was credited with award-winning editorial pages which covered the best m residential, corporate and hospitality design.
Dr. King has been named Woman of the Year by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality. She has also received awards for distinguished service from the National Board of the American Society of Interior Designers and from the Los Angeles chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the International Society of Interior Designers.
Dr. King earned both a B.A. and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She also studied at Cambridge University in England.
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