But unlike their agricultural brethren, they do not result in food shortages and those wood chips could be mixed in with coal before it is combusted.

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Exhibitions include sculpture, wood carving, painting, drawing, photography, wearable art, textile art, mixed media and ceramics.

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The furnishings, though, looked much the same the modern taste of twenty years ago, boxy and stuffed, bare wood and monochrome wool, coffee tables of thick glass on cruciform legs of stainless steel, all mixed with Orientals and family antiques.

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