THE WHITE ROAD

In The White Road, E. de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or white gold. A pott er who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted-and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure. From hi s studio in London, he starts by travelling to three white hills-sites in China, Germany and England that are key to porcelain's cre ation. Bu...[Read more]