Viking Books | ISBN:0670023809 | File Type: PDF, 288 pages | File size: 75.Mb | Dec. 27th, 2012
General Woodworking: A Journey to the Heart of Making A beautif intricate meditation on creativity and discovery on fire and rebirth Elizabeth Gilbert Awestruck at the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London church David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to woodcarving its physical rhythms intricate beauty and intellectual demands Forty years later he is the foremost practitioner of Gibbons s forgotten technique which revolutionized ornamental scpture in the late 1600s with its spectacar cascades of flowers fruits and foliage After a disastrous fire at Henry VIII s Hampton Court alace Esterly was asked to replace the Gibbons masterpiece destroyed by the flames It turned out to be the most challenging year in Esterly s life forcing him to question his abilities and delve deeply into what it means to make a thing well Written with a philosopher s intellect and a poet s grace The Lost Carving explores the connection between creativity and physical work and illuminates the passionate pursuit of a vocation that unites head and hand and heart
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