It looks easy when Edmund de Waal does it, forming in the language of his fingers a kind of tactile poetry. "There's this lovely feeling for me of the sort of breathing vessel, which is changing all ...

Artist and ceramicist Edmund de Waal is perhaps best known to his fans as the author of the 2010 bestselling book The Hare with Amber Eyes, which also had a dedicated solo show of the same name at the ...

There are many family memoirs whose stories are as enticing as Edmund de Waal’s. There are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book ...

It is rare for someone to write as well as Edmund de Waal, all the more since it’s his secondary vocation. De Waal’s first book, “The Hare with Amber Eyes” — which he humbly calls “my book about ...

Edmund de Waal's latest book, The White Road: Journey into an Obsession, is an intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys. He calls his previous work, internationally ...

Edmund de Waal takes us on a vast journey into the history and heart, skin and bones of porcelain. He is a potter and in discussing his book, The White Road: Journey into an Obsession (Farrar, Straus ...

The University of Mosul (UoM) once held one of the largest libraries in West Asia, housing over a million books and rare historical materials, including a Quran from the ninth century and periodicals ...

In 1717, Augustus the Strong of Poland, a porcelain devotee associated with the Meissen facility nearby, developed a passionate need to acquire 18 large Chinese porcelain vases owned by Frederick ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

They were well into the wine before they started telling stories. All day long the delegates at the 2005 Harvard conference on 20th-century studio ceramics had been listening to presentations on the ...