{"id":5927,"date":"2014-11-22T20:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T04:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:53","slug":"5927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=5927","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-8.jpg\" alt=\"0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-8\" width=\"675\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-8.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-8-119x80.jpg 119w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-8-450x301.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><p> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>Hilla Shamia, an Israeli artist and designer, burns molten aluminum on the surface of raw wood to create beautiful furniture. The heat sears\u00a0a beautiful black layer of carbon that creates a boundary between the cold silvery color of the aluminum and the wood\u2019s beautiful natural colors and forms.\u00a0The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional value by preservation of the natural form of the tree trunk, within explicit boundaries. The general, squared form intensifies the artificial feeling, and at the same time keeps the memory of the material.\u00a0(<a title=\"Hilla Shamia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Hilla Shamia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hillashamia.com\/?\/projects\/wood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5927 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Artist Hilla Shamia&#8217;s\u00a0Wood and Aluminum Furniture&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4.jpg\" alt=\"0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4-113x80.jpg 113w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4-260x185.jpg 260w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/0wood-casting-aluminum-furniture-hilla-shamia-4-450x318.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilla Shamia, an ingenious Israeli artist and designer, creates beautiful one-of-a-kind wood and aluminum desks and stools using a unique method that marries cold aluminum and beautiful pieces of wood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18404,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/18404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}