Production Details:

Softback
420pp

Description:

The 500 wood bowls featured here celebrate both the artistic vision and transformative technique of dozens of contemporary woodcraft artisans.
They bring their visions to life by exploiting the special properties of the wood itself. Warm, forgiving, and malleable, wood adapts to an extraordinary range of working tool techniques, from powerful hydraulic chain saws and laser cutting machines to traditional hand-shaping tools. This full-color pictorial survey showcases the rich variety of the bowl-turner's art, from the gentle elegance of Christian Burchard's sandblasted and bleached madrone burl, "White Gourd," to the striking wood and copper "Oceanic Anointing Vessel" from New Zealand artist John Ecuyer, who pays homage to South Pacific island ceremonial traditions.