Two Turtle Doves
A Memoir of Making Things
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2014
240 pages
978-1-4088-4119-8 (ISBN)
Description
'I imagine its being rediscovered with delight in some dusty book case a century hence and hailed as a classic' Spectator
'A wonderful book, a hymn to the pleasurable process of making things' The Times
Two Turtle Doves is the story of a life spent making things.
Growing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world.
Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-carts and guns, cross-bows and booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then, it was jewellery.
From full-out warfare waged against the local schoolboys to the freedom found in daredevil Raleigh bike antics to the delicacies of dress-making and the most intricate designs for jewellery, Two Turtle Doves traces the intimate journey of how an idea is transformed from a fleeting thought into an exquisite piece of jewellery. It is about where we find our creativity, how we remember and why we make the things we do.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4119-8 (9781408841198)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2015
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€38.56
Shipment within 15-20 days
Book
03/2014
Bloomsbury Circus
€41.03
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Alex Monroe grew up in rural Suffolk and showed a keen interest in art and design from an early age. Alex trained at Sir John Cass Faculty of Art in Whitechapel. He set up his business in South London in 1986 and Alex Monroe Jewellery is now an iconic and internationally successful brand.
@agmonroe
www.alexmonroe.com
@agmonroe
www.alexmonroe.com
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Woolverstone and the River Orwell
- Chrysanthemum
- The Bee
- The River Alde
- Two Turtle Doves
- Calabria
- The Gardener
- Daisy Bell
- Peacock
- East Coast Rivers
- Lovebirds
- Butterfly
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- eCopyright
