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In the Company of Stone

Daniel Snow is a waller, an artisan who builds walls, terraces, caverns, and the occasional sphere or pool out of dry stone. It's an ancient skill--building with only what the earth provides.
ISBN: 9781579653477
Author: Dan Snow
Page: 118
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2007
Format: Book
Publisher: ARTISAN
Language: English

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Price: 6 850 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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No mortar, no nails, nothing to hold his creations together except gravity, an invisible glue he can sense in the stones' "conversations" of squeaks and rumbles. A hollow sound means a void needs to be filled; a solid fit is secured with the sound of a bolt being thrown. Snow's evocative prose and Peter Mauss's richly textured photographs of Snow's work reveal the nuance and beauty of walling--and of one man's relationship with nature. The result is by turns poetic and practical.

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