Wood: Materials for Inspirational Design

by Chris Lefteri

Book Overview

What is it about wood that makes it so familiar, so accessible, so aspirational and everyone's favourite material? This third title in the Materials series looks at wood in many of its forms, from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2880468124
• ISBN13: 9782880468125
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Rotovision
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Great but not for the novice wood worker.

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."

As advertised

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.