WHITEHOUSE DAVID

GLASS OF THE SULTANS
(...) Τhe exhibition explores with special emphasis two glorious episodes in the history of Islamic glass-making the ninth and tenth-century production of cut and engraved glass and the thirteenth and fourteenth-century production of gilded and enameled objects. Building on the tradition of glass cutting in the Sasanian Empire, Islamic craftsmen began to make exquisitely delicate cut glass in the ninth century. Glassmakers produced blanks of various kinds, including colorless objects, which at their best had clarity of rock crystal, and co...
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Η ΥΑΛΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΣΟΥΛΤΑΝΩΝ
(...) Η έκθεση «Η υαλουργία των σουλτάνων» συγκεντρώνει περισσότερα από 150 αντικείμενα, αντιπροσωπευτικά δώδεκα αιώνων υαλουργίας. Περιλαμβάνοντας όλους τους βασικούς τύπους προβιομηχανικού γυαλιού από την Αίγυπτο, τη Μέση Ανατολή και την Ινδία, παρουσιάζει ένα πλούσιο απάνθισμα σχημάτων, χρωμάτων και τεχνικών. (...) Δύο είναι τα νήματα που διατρέχουν την ιστορία της υαλουργίας: από τη μια ένας ανθεκτικός στο χρόνο συνδυασμός βασικών τεχνικών, εργαλείων και συνταγών, και από την άλλη οι περίοδοι που έχουν σημαδέψει τα κύματα της ανανέωσ...
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(P/B) MOBILE LIBRARY
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he's been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together, discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble and Val is in danger of losing her job. There's only one thing to do -- and so they take to the road in the mobile libr...
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(P/B) BED
What makes life worth getting out of bed for? Mal isn't like the other kids. So remarkable is his childhood that his family wait for the incredible things he seems born to do. Then one day he goes to bed, never to get out again. Recounted by Mal's younger brother, Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. It chronicles the metamorphosis of one extraordinary man, and explores what love, loss and family can do to you in a lifetime. Enchanting, funny, surreal and heartwarming, David Whitehouse's novel presents one of the most thrilling and...
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