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  • Alvar Aalto's classic 60 white-birch stackable stool in blue.

    Fresh Picks: News From the Design World 2011

  • Here, the main kitchen with white-birch cabinetry and a double-sided fireplace outfitted in the same stone that can be found above the stove.

    A Castle Ridge Colonial Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

  • Alvar Aalto is the architect who gave the modernist world three legs to stand on, with his classic 60 white-birch stackable stool, designed in 1933 for the Viipuri library in his native Finland.

    Fresh Picks: News From the Design World 2011

  • To the dark, knotted trunk was fastened a piece of light, delicate bark, stripped from a white-birch tree.

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • Unsheathing his hunting-knife, and selecting a sound white-birch tree,

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • These last, in the fast-gathering darkness, looked like a sable array of mourners in whose ranks a pale ghost or two mingled, the spectres being slim white-birch trees.

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • The white-birch, paper-birch, canoe-birch, grows large in moist spots near the stream where it is needed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • She remembered now that big white-birch tree stood right at the place where the brook tumbled over the

    Understood Betsy 1917

  • As she spoke they came to a small, clear, swift brook, crossed by a big white-birch log.

    Understood Betsy 1917

  • She remembered now that big white-birch tree stood right at the place where the brook tumbled over the edge and fell into it.

    Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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