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Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving.

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From: Interior Design
Date: 19990201
Author:Abercrombie, Stanley

Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving by David Esterly New York: Abrams 224 pages, 176 illustrations, 66 in color $49.50.

As his admirer Horace Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species." This is not the first book devoted to the work of English carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721): Geoffrey Beard, director of the Attingham Summer School on the British Country House, wrote an excellent Gibbons ...

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