Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman ―An Uplifting Memoir About Woodworking and Craftsmanship - Hardcover

Robinson, Callum

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ISBN 10: 0063350831 ISBN 13: 9780063350830

Verlag: Ecco, 2024

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A captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.

The eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing the lessons of craftsmanship in his father’s workshop. In time he became his father’s apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to find his own path―to chase ever bigger and more commercial projects and establish a workshop of his own―drew him away. Faced with the end of his business, his team, and everything he had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered most.

In beautifully wrought prose, Callum tells the story of returning to the workshop and to the wood, to handcrafting furniture for people who will love it and then pass it on to the next generation―an antidote to a culture where everything seems so easily disposable. As he does so, he brings us closer to nature and the physical act of creation―and we begin to understand how he has been shaped, as both a craftsman and a son.

Blending memoir about work and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world―one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light.

Callum Robinson’s return to the wood is an unforgettable exploration of:

• A Father and Son Story

• The Art of Woodworking

• Scottish Nature Writing

• An Antidote to Throwaway Culture

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Callum Robinson makes all manner of things from all manner of woods for some of the most influential brands in the world. He is creative director at Method Studio, the company he established with his wife, designer and lecturer Marisa Giannasi, almost fifteen years ago. Taught by his father – now one of the UK’s foremost “Master Woodcarvers” – his work has been exhibited widely. He works and writes from a studio and workshop in a forest, beside a loch, nestled in the Scottish hills.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0063350831
• ISBN 13: 9780063350830
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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