{"id":4275,"date":"2017-09-18T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/listone-giordano-the-6-values-that-make-the-difference\/lorigine-di-un-capolavoro\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:02:39","slug":"the-core-of-every-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/listone-giordano-the-6-values-that-make-the-difference\/the-core-of-every-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"The core of every masterpiece?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The core of every masterpiece?<\/p>\n<\/h1>

The choice
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Antonio Stradivari would go to the red pine forest to personally choose the wood he used to make his celebrated instruments. Michelangelo went to the marble quarries in Carrara to select each block of stone for his magnificent sculptures. The great artists of the past, like today\u2019s great fashion designers and chefs, know that the basis of all masterpieces is the selection of the right raw material.<\/p>\n

And this is also true of Listone Giordano, it always has been. Wood is a natural material, one of the world\u2019s most beautiful creations, but also one of its most complex products. You need experience. Take oak, for example. One word, but rife with a myriad of differences. Differences that cannot be hidden. It would be like saying wine is wine, that they are all the same. And the same holds true for food, for fabrics and precious stones. And \u2013 fortunately - we all know about the vast range of quality offered there as well. Guaranteed origins, historic legacy, what man does with any given product can make a huge difference. Listone Giordano\u2019s commitment to quality comes from far away. It comes from Fontaines, in the Burgundy region of France, from the ages old forests where the wood industry has roots that go back a thousand years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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Not everyone knows just how long it takes for an oak tree to complete its life cycle in a forest in the Burgundy.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Fontaines oak.
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The oak trees that grow in Fontaines are not just run-of-the-mill oak. They are part of a long relationship with France\u2026<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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That which is true for precious stones, is also true for wood. Both can acquire an astronomically superior...<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Wood contains many natural extracts the tree has acquired from the soil. Among the most important of these, especially in woods like oak, maple and ash, is tannin, a substance<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Once the basic choice of precious raw materials has been made, there is a second type of selection that needs to take place, this time during the processing phase. This step involves dividing the planks...<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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The core of every masterpiece? The choice of raw material. Antonio Stradivari would go to the red pine forest to personally choose the wood he used to make his celebrated instruments. Michelangelo went to the marble quarries in Carrara to select each block of stone for his magnificent sculptures. The great artists of the past, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4099,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/chapter.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"wps_subtitle":"THE CHOICE OF RAW MATERIAL.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275\/revisions\/4567"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/guida\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}