This book is a tour de force. The author, Edmund de Waal, is a successful potter and a writer chasing his obsession with the history and allure of porcelain, or so-called “white gold. From the catalogue copy:
Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity. In a sweeping yet intimate style … de Waal gives us a singular understanding of "the spectrum of porcelain" and the mapping of desire.
The book is fascinating, informative, importantly a page-turner. Note two copies are available, one paperback and one hard cover.
This book is a tour de force. The author, Edmund de Waal, is a successful potter and a writer chasing his obsession with the history and allure of porcelain, or so-called “white gold. From the catalogue copy:
Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity. In a sweeping yet intimate style … de Waal gives us a singular understanding of "the spectrum of porcelain" and the mapping of desire.
The book is fascinating, informative, importantly a page-turner. Note two copies are available, one paperback and one hard cover.
