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Bhutanese art

Each region has its specialties: raw silk comes from eastern Bhutan, brocade from Lhuntshi (Kurtoe), woolen goods from Bumthang, bamboo wares from Kheng, woodwork from Tashi Yangtse, gold and silver work from Thimphu, and yak-hair products from the north or the Black Mountains.

Brownsover

The church has an interesting collection of English and foreign carved woodwork, including a splendid organ case, made in 1660 for St John's College, Cambridge.

David Belasco

The theater was built to Belasco's wishes, with Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and murals.

George Keister

Built for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artist Everett Shinn, and a ten-room duplex penthouse apartment that Belasco utilized as combination living quarters/office space.

HM Prison Acklington

Education and vocational courses at the prison include: Woodwork; Tailoring and Textiles; Industrial workshops; Engineering workshops; Painting and Decorating; Bricklaying; Amenity Gardening; Market Gardening; Laundry; Physical Education; Waste Management and Catering, all of which include accredited qualifications.

Hook, Fareham

Initially built to serve the estate, the smithy and wheelwright’s shop gradually expanded to serve the much wider area of Warsash and Locks Heath, becoming a small industrial centre providing woodwork and ironwork for the district.

J. Mora Moss House

Honduras mahogany was used for built-in interior cabinetry, Port Orford Cedar trimmed the lower floor walls with the balance of wall woodwork being clear redwood.

Jinnah House

Designed by architect Claude Batley in the European-style architecture, the sea facing palatial bungalow was constructed using exquisite Italian marble and walnut woodwork.

Kimbel and Cabus

Two more-traditional Kimbel & Cabus commissions were for the interior woodwork of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (1875) and the Tenth Company Room at the Seventh Regiment Armory (1879–80).

Leicester College

The vocational home of the College, Freemen’s Park has a professional Hair and Beauty salon, working kitchens which supply a bistro and silver service restaurant and Construction workshops where learners can train in plumbing, brickwork, woodwork, painting and decorating.

Mary Van Duzer-Sayer House

Surrounding rooms have many intact original features and woodwork, including two Adamesque mantels supported by fluted pilasters.

Mercat Cross, Edinburgh

On 10 December 1688, a mob, having broken into the private chapel of King James VII at Holyrood Abbey and torn down the woodwork, carried it to the Cross where it was burned along with an effigy of the Pope.

Mount Barker, Western Australia

St Werburghs Chapel was built in 1872 with walls made from chopped straw and clay and woodwork formed from local jarrah.

Rocky Point Manor

The woodwork and mouldings in the home, attributed respectively to Matthew P. Lowery, the most famous Federal craftsman of the time, and John Rogers, the most famous foreign architect in Kentucky, are also a testament to the costliness of the house.

Samuel Moore House

The Moore House is one of the best examples of the mature American Craftsman style architecture in the University Heights Historic District which combines traditional woodwork, design and craftsmanship while adapting features that were currently fashionable during the period.

Sedgefield

St Edmund's church in Sedgefield is noted for its ornate 17th century Cosin woodwork, unique to County Durham: this is especially precious now that the display in Brancepeth has perished through fire.

Selsley Church

Local labour and contractors were used: Harrison of King's Stanley were the main contractors; stone carvings were undertaken by Joshua Wall; woodwork by William English and ironwork by T.J Chew.


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