The ancient Egyptians used copper saw blades more than 5, 000 years ago to cut both wood and stone.
The 9, 000-square-foot house, made of wood and stone, wouldn't look out of place in a typical wealthy Midwestern suburb.
Throughout history, humans have relied on wood and stone to shelter and protect themselves, and the chisel is one of the best tools to work those materials.
Uganda has no tradition of sculpture: nothing like Kenya's popular Kamba carvings, still less the sophisticated wood and stone sculptures of Benin or elsewhere in West Africa, which brought bold lines into the work of Constantin Brancusi and other modernists.
Originally from Milan, she and her husband bought a plot of land near La Playita beach and in 2006 built Chalet Tropical: three two-storey thatched-roof bungalows, handcrafted by locals with wood interiors and stone bathrooms.
Now, the new spot, called Parallel 37, named for its Bay-area setting, highlights wood, stone and glass and regional cuisine.
This can create confusion, as Mr. Joy discovered in the reaction to a wood-shingle and stone house he recently finished in Woodstock, Vt.
The goal is to harvest resources (food, wood, gold and stone), construct buildings (including sawmills, watch towers and barracks) on a huge, randomly generated map in order to seek out and destroy rival races while simultaneously protecting your burgeoning town.
In-room iPads control windows, TVs and temperature, while stone and weathered wood beams give the rooms a cozy alpine feel.
And Rovio said: go forth and be angry, for the pigs hath absconded with thy eggs and hidden themselves away in curiously arranged fortresses of stone and wood furnished with many glittering jewels and succulent hams.
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The game itself is a wonder, as it uses purposefully blocky textures and models, where players craft vast structures from elements like wood, stone, earth, water and fire.
The company provides a complete selection for all markets of carpet, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone, vinyl and rugs.
The home features white oak floors and a stone wood burning fireplace, but, according to the property listing, the home is in need of updates.
Losh left little of herself beyond the stone, wood and glass of her astonishing church and a few other local structures a mausoleum, a cross, the schoolhouse, some cottages.
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In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
The separate cases involved members of ex-England footballer John Terry's family, and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.
He booked himself into the best hotel he could find in Arromanches, a pile made of brick, stone, and wood, which creaked in the gusting wind.
The Mussner family rebuilt the mountain lodge in 2010, using local Dolomite stone and larch wood and the affect is one of calm modernity, all clean lines and soft colours.
Dining areas in both have long wooden tables, stone fireplaces and outdoor wood-burning pizza ovens.
Dale, operating in a modern stone-and-wood restaurant designed by New York's AvroKo, plays with classics, grilling the romaine in a deconstructed Caesar salad, adding Cherry Coke to the sauce in a duck tamale, and marinating sushi-grade tuna in smoky Lapsang souchong tea with, respectively, good, bad, and indifferent results.
The lodge itself is a patrician beauty, composed of local stone and macrocarpa, a wood similar to cedar that fades to gray.
In the cottage downstairs there was only one room, with a kitchen at one end and a sitting room at the other, a flagged floor and a wood fire smoldering in a wide stone hearth, one wall stripped back to the naked stone.
Bernard laying outside the wood doors of the sixty year old yellow cement and stone building, into the carpeted lobby to the reception area.
The log cabin-style main home features a stone wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and extensive water and mountain views.
One of the first Tudor homes to be made from brick, many of its original features -- including a vast stone fireplace and a wall of intricately carved dark wood panels -- remain to this day.
In a city made of stone, from pyramids to flyovers, it prefers wood for its panelling and partitions, a darkly stained bar, a scratched trolley, a desk piled high with books.
Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.
Dr. Glanzer used a different technique in the Rockies: A wood frame supports a 1.5-inch-thick facade of fake stone colored and chemically distressed to give the illusion of age.
It's smokin' (with an integrated wood-fire smoking drawer), rockin' (with a composite-stone baking surface) and it brings the heat: 30, 000 BTUs' worth.
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