I’m a fan of books in any form – including edible – and have always wanted to learn how to bind a book. Now I have my chance.
Seattle Center for Book Arts (SCBA), formed to promote education in hand book binding and related art forms, has some fascinating classes coming up for anyone in – or coming to – the Seattle area.
Living in a home heated by a forced air furnace turns your dining room into a desert. The relative humidity in your house can drop into single digits; the average relative humidity in the Sahara Desert is 25%!
Rather than buy an over-engineered mechanical device that gulps electricity and can harbor harmful mildew and bacteria, you could strategically place a few of these passive wood humidifiers. Looking more like a bit of sculpture, the “mast humidifier” by Shin Okada functions by evaporation.
Known for its high-quality timber, rot-resistant qualities and lemony scent, the thinly sliced Hinoki mast absorbs water from the hull and diffuses it, and its intrinsic aroma, into the room.
Learn more – or buy it – at Spoon & Tomago.
The Pacific Northwest is one of the richest sources of fiber – including wood fiber – in North America. As a result, I’m always looking for new and creative ways that paper and pulp are being used.
Unfolded-Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry, by Petra Schmidt and Nicola Stattmann (Birkhäuser 2009), is an amazing book showing how far we can go with cellulose.
