New craft books featured in the Spring 2022 issue of American Craft.
By Jon Spayde
June 1, 2022
By Jolanda van de Grint
Schiffer Publishing, 2021
$29.99
In this genuinely practical handbook, van de Grint breaks down how to get beautiful results with saggar firing if electricity is your only option. With its step-by-step instructions and exact parameters, illustrated with numerous gorgeous and helpful photographs, this book will be a boon companion on the road of experimentation.
By Susan Cummins and Damian Skinner
Arnoldsche, April 2022
$50
Found objects and narrative are the main focuses of jeweler Laurie Hall’s work, and they’re what the authors focus on to tell the story of this important but largely unknown artist. Featuring stunning large-scale images of her work, the book seeks to secure Hall’s place as a significant figure in the Northwest School of Jewelers movement.
By Judith Gura
Thames & Hudson, 2021
$85
“The lines between craft, industrial design, and art are increasingly difficult to draw,” observes design historian Gura. In this showcase of more than 100 contemporary furniture designers from all over the world, she highlights the melding of the made-by-hand and the digital in the fabrication of pieces equally at home in the museum and the domestic interior.
By Reiko Sudo, edited by Naomi Pollock
Thames & Hudson, 2021
$75
Sudo is one of Japan’s foremost textile designers and the managing director of Nuno, a path-breaking company founded in 1984. In these pages, Nuno’s innovative designs are interspersed with thoughtful essays from a variety of contributors. Delightfully, each chapter is named for an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase defining a family of fabrics.
By Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
$30
In what the publisher calls “a searing memoir in prose and painted leather,” Rembert tells an often-harrowing story of his experiences as a field laborer, a civil rights advocate, and the survivor of an attempted lynching and the incarceration that followed. The tale goes on to relate his creative journey, encouraged by his beloved wife.
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