This fabulously illustrated book offers a rich and unique introduction to wood. A range of projects, products, and processes are featured to demonstrate some of the extraordinary possibilities of wood and to challenge the boundaries of traditional applications. It includes everyday, familiar, and iconic products, along with those that are new, exciting and unexpected. Applications covered include architecture, interior design, product design, furniture design and more. Each product is introduced with authorial comment, interviews with the designers and manufacturers, and solid technical information, making this a uniquely attractive and practical book for designers.
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Chris Lefteri graduated with an MA in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1992, and has since run his own industrial design company. He is a senior lecturer at Central Saint MartinÆs College of Art and Design.
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This review is from: Wood: Materials for Inspirational Design (Materials for Inspiratl Design) (Hardcover)
This is a book in the series "Materials for inspirational design" and that pretty much says it all. This is a book on industrial design written for designers: beautifully printed and bound, in glorious color. Its strengths are also its weaknesses. The 'functional white space' is on the verge of being overwhelming, especially in the part that is supposed to give technical information. The definition of "wood" is a designer's and includes bamboo, coconut fibres, ply and various wood derivatives. For actual information on wood the reader had better turn elswehere. As a book to show possibilities and to inspire previously unthought-of uses of wood, this will do fine.
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Great but not for the novice wood worker.,
By Bob Fitzsimmons (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wood (Materials for Inspirational Design) (Paperback)
This book is geared toward the professional wood designer. It's technical language can be off putting for the hobbyist. If you are a professional designer, this book is indispensable. However, if you're like me, someone who just works with wood as a hobby,and wants general info, check out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Encyclopedia of Wood."
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Further Information, Sources Europe, Typical Uses Furniture, John Makepeace, Material Properties Excellent, Material Properties High, Sources Manufactured, Hooke Park College, Material Properties Good, Asia Minor, Material Properties Coarse, Material Properties Easy New!
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Walnut is a famous for its natural decorative qualities as it is for its fruit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wastage factor, clear grades, steam bending, wide boards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Further Information, Sources Europe, Typical Uses Furniture, John Makepeace, Material Properties Excellent, Material Properties High, Sources Manufactured, Hooke Park College, Material Properties Good, Asia Minor, Material Properties Coarse, Material Properties Easy New!
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- Materials for Inspirational Design by Chris Lefteri in Front Matter
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- Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects by Jason Alread on page 145, and Back Matter
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