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A Journey to the Heart of Making
Viking
January 2013
On Sale: December 27, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0670023809 EAN: 9780670023806 Kindle: B008EKOQQW Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 sculpture in the late 1600s with
its spectacular cascades of flowers, fruits, and foliage. After a disastrous fire at Henry VIII’s Hampton Court
Palace, 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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