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The highly acclaimed memoir of a renowned artisan with a new introduction by Jenny Uglow, The Lost Carving reveals the inspirational secrets of wood and craft.
On a chance visit to St James’s church, Piccadilly, David Esterly was awestruck by the delicate beauty and ambition of master carver Grinling Gibbons’s limewood decorations. The encounter changed the course of Esterly’s life as he devoted himself to these lost techniques.
By 1986, when a fire at Hampton Court Palace destroyed much of Gibbons’s masterpiece, Esterly was the only candidate to restore his idol’s work to glory, though the experience forced him to question his abilities and delve deeply into the subtle skills of making.
Author Biography
David Esterly is the author of Grinling Gibbons and The Art of Carving and curated the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition on Gibbons in 1998. He was a professional wood carver since the 1970s, and has been profiled in the Financial Times, the New Yorker and the New York Times. He lived in upstate New York.
Jenny Uglow is a highly acclaimed critic and biographer, and the author of numerous prize-winning non-fiction books, including The Lunar Men, Nature’s Engraver, A Gambling Man, Mr Lear and Sybil & Cyril.
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