""Wood is universally beautiful to man. Man loves his association with it; likes to feel it under his hand, sympathetic to his touch and to his eye." Frank Lloyd Wright's appreciation of mankind's oldest building material is still shared by most architects, interior designers, owner-occupiers and tenants. Wood is organic, it is regarded as warm, as making human surroundings cosy. In addition, it can compete with any hi-tech material: ..."
"L'histoire du verre remonte à plus de 4 000 ans. Ce sont les Romains qui, les premiers, ont posé des vitrages sur les bâtiments pour empêcher la pluie et le vent de pénétrer à l'intérieur. Mais il a fallu attendre le perfectionnement des techniques du laminage et de la fonte des métaux au XVIIIe et surtout au XIXe siècle pour pouvoir fabriquer des vitres toujours plus grandes, plus transparentes et plus fines. On doit l'essor du verr ..."