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The celebrated follow-up to The Hare with Amber Eyes. In The White Road: Journey into an Obsession, acclaimed potter and writer Edmund de Waal turns to his own obsession: porcelain — the miraculous white material that has captivated humanity for a thousand years.
De Waal travels from the porcelain workshops of Jingdezhen in China, where the craft was born, to Meissen in Germany, where European alchemists first cracked its secrets — tracing how this fragile material shaped trade, empires, and art across the centuries. Along the way he blends memoir, history, and travel writing, meditating on whiteness, craft, and what it means to devote a life to making.
Elegant, erudite, and deeply personal — essential reading for art lovers, ceramicists, and anyone who has ever been held by the beauty of a handmade object. Published in 2015, it confirms de Waal as one of our finest writers on art and the life of things.
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal is the celebrated follow-up to his bestselling The Hare with Amber Eyes. This time, the acclaimed potter and writer turns to his own obsession: porcelain — the miraculous white material that has captivated humanity for a thousand years.
De Waal travels from the porcelain workshops of Jingdezhen in China, where the craft was born, to Meissen in Germany, where European alchemists first cracked its secrets, tracing how this fragile material shaped trade, empires, and art across the centuries. Along the way he blends memoir, history, and travel writing — meditating on whiteness, craft, and what it means to devote a life to making.
Elegant, erudite, and deeply personal, The White Road is essential reading for art lovers, ceramicists, and anyone who has ever been held by the beauty of a handmade object. Published in 2015, it confirms de Waal as one of our finest writers on art and the life of things.
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