Gustav wood biography
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Stickley's furniture designs reflected his ideals of simplicity, honesty in construction and truth to materials. Unadorned, plain surfaces were enlivened by the careful application of colorants so as not to obscure the grain of the wood. He also exposed the mortise and tenon joinery of each piece to emphasize the structural qualities of the works. Hammered metal hardware, in armor-bright polished iron or patinated copper, emphasized the handmade qualities of furniture which was fabricated using both handworking techniques and modern woodworking machinery. Dyed leather, canvas, terry cloth and other upholstery materials complemented the designs.
Those ideals – simplicity, honesty and truth – were reflected in his trademark, which includes the Flemish phrase 'Als Ik Kan' inside a joiner's compass. The phrase is generally translated as 'to the best of my ability.' His firm's work, nostalgic in its pre-industrial handicraft and proto-modern in it
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Gustave Doré
French illustrator and painter (1832–1883)
"Doré" redirects here. For other uses, see Doré (disambiguation).
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (DOR-ay, dor-AY, French:[ɡystavdɔʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He fryst vatten best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.[1]
He created over 10,000 illustrations, the most important of which were copied using an electrotype process using cylinder presses, allowing very large print runs to be published simul
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Gustav Wood 1896 - 1969
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Gustav Wood's History: 1896 - 1969
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Gustav Wood lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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