Water. The source of every form of life, it is an essential component of every being living on the Earth and covers a good 70.8% of the planet's surface. We owe it the origin of life itself and today it keeps on being a precious and ultimate element for its industrial use as well. The presence of water in green lumber is most important too, so relevant that, in a few cases, it weighs more than dry wood itself. To dedicate this fourth issue of Woode to wood and water means for us in Bellotti to pay homage to what allows us to work, to study, to love, to travel... In a word: to live! We tried to deal with this topic in the widest and most various possible way: thus are born the interviews to Wim Goes, who designed a wood dwelling on Flanders waters, to the divers partners of Idra in Venice, who found in the Lagoon the only fourteenth-century galley existing in the world, to Roberto Guzzardi, who repairs Ligurian gozzo boats giving a new life to ancient seafaring trades, to Ercole Archetti, a carpenter whose family has been manufacturing boats for five generations, and to Thomas Meyer, who renovated a mill in Switzerland. But surprises and rarities do not end here. In this issue of Woode you will learn with the young, successful entrepreneur Christian Gasser what wooden shingles are, and you will discover with Fabio Lucidi that even in your garden is possible to build a wooden kayak; lastly, with Cesare Feiffer, you will get to know all the secrets about the wooden piles which have been supporting Venice for hundreds of years. I hope that, like me, you too will be intrigued by the matters dealt with in this issue and that you can enjoy a pleasant reading rocked by waves.

Environmental sustainability, green philosophy, ecology, green economy.
Several words to express one single concept: attention and respect
for the world we live in and the wish to keep it worth living also for the
people who will come after us. Quite a relevant subject, to which Bellotti
must be particularly sensitive and towards which it proved its front
line commitment installing a photovoltaic system on its roof about one
year ago, as Marco Toppi relates in the interview published at page 34.
For this reason we decided to dedicate Woode’s third issue (printed
on recycled paper as usual) to sustainability and a few among its numberless
and innovative experiences: from the exhibition “Green Life”
set up by Franco Origoni, to Amorim’s cork, with its inconceivable applications,
passing through Matteo Thun’s genius loci and arriving
to the Venetian “briccole”, recycled and exploited by the ideas of the
brothers Riva. We also found out realities perfectly combining leisure
and entertainment with the attention to the environment, such as
the bamboo skis “Leaf” and the ecological lobster boat created by Abati
Yachts’ boatyard. And a last, but powerful, discordant voice: the
one of the writer-carver-climber Mauro Corona. Enjoy your reading.

And here we are to the second issue of Woode, Bellotti’s special house-organ dedicated to wood. Our first issue has been highly praised, and this has been for us an incentive to go on, following the thread of culture, and has persuaded us even more of the importance of speaking of wood in a broad and diversified sense. In this new number we thought to introduce a few minor changes and to organize articles and interviews according to one common subject: wood and the five senses. This choice allowed us to highlight and communicate the countless applications of wood and the many potentials of this material which is alive and changes. So we matched each of the five senses with an experience related to wood: touch with Marco Beri’s tool handles, sight with the Astronomical Observatory of Kielder in England, taste with the barriques manufactured by the company Fabbrica Botti Gamba, hearing with the White Room built for the House of Sound of Parma, while for smell we relied on the experience of an expert: Roberto Zanuttini. Confirmed are instead the original interviews to Bellotti’s employees as well as the answers given by our specialist. But this number of Woode offers even more: it’s up to you to discover and appreciate the innovations with all your five senses! Enjoy your reading.

There's a newcomer at Bellotti's: it is Woode, the completely renewed house organ, totally dedicated to wood, an artistic material which, today more than ever, is still a most modern source of inspiration and creativity for both artistic and cultural production.
A friendly publication, totally transformed in graphics and contents, always looking for new trends in the use of wood for design, architecture, shipbuilding and building applications, Woode is the main instrument of Bellotti's company communication: a cultural magazine capable of satisfying requests for technical information as well.
Woode means wood evolution: faithfully to the company's pay off “Bellotti: wood evolution”, the business' house organ reflects the commitment and the interest that the firm has always been having for the development and the growth, as to product innovation, technology, projects and the ability to adapt itself to the new market demands and challenges. Like internationalization: in fact Bellotti not only pays attention to the Italian public, but to foreign readers as well; that's why Woode is proposed in a bilingual version, with texts in Italian and in English.