Description
Lime, brick, flint, wood or concrete, sandstone, wrought iron - why do we choose certain materials over others? Economic constraints, fashions, uses, availability of materials - there are many reasons. From the lush beech forests of Arques and Eawy, which provided the framework for the half-timbered houses of the medieval town, to the prefabricated concrete panels of the post-World War II era, from the huge hot-oven kilns erected in 1695 to the glass paving stones favored by modernist architecture, come and discover the history of the materials that have shaped the town of Dieppe
