The Workshop: Celebrating the Place where Craftmanship Begins

The Workshop: Celebrating the Place where Craftmanship Begins

by ScottGibson (Author)

Synopsis

This book is a guided tour of woodworkers' workshops where artists, craftsmen, students and enthusiasts imagine, design, fix, build and transform themselves and their materials. It provides an inspiring look at the many faces of wood craft from making furniture to building boats. A workshop is more than a space that contains tools so that we can work. The very existence of a shop is a reflection of the creative impulse to turn something that exists in the mind into a tangible reality. What someone makes in a shop and why influences how the shop is configured, what tools it holds, where it is. The maker, the process, the ultimate product, and the space are intimately connected. This book explores those connections by using the space - the shop - as the point in which these inter-related themes intersect.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Taunton Press Inc
Published: 15 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 1561585750
ISBN 13: 9781561585755

Media Reviews
This is not just another book about shops--not that I ever mind the opportunity to snoop around other woodworkers' shops and shop solutions. Instead, Scott acknowledges that our shops are, in essence, a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) expression of their owners--and that breathes life as well as lessons into these stories of workspaces around the country.