Callum Robinson makes all manner of things from all manner of woods for some of the most influential brands in the world. He is creative director at Method Studio, the company he established with his wife, designer and lecturer Marisa Giannasi, almost fifteen years ago. Taught by his father – now one of the UK’s foremost “Master Woodcarvers” – his work has been exhibited widely. He works and writes from a studio and workshop in a forest, beside a loch, nestled in the Scottish hills.
Robinson's first book is Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman, a memoir of his unorthodox creative education.
At the Guardian he tagged "five very different books about trees." One title on the list:
Read about the other entries on the list.The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
Evocatively set in rural Norway and the remote Shetland Islands archipelago, Mytting’s gripping mystery gradually works away at the knotty family secrets of Edvard Hirifjell – the untimely death of his parents, a bitter wartime feud and a priceless missing inheritance – ultimately revealing a history swirling with all the tension, drama and beauty of the unique grain that’s hidden inside every tree.
Also see: seven books that celebrate trees in all of their glory.
--Marshal Zeringue
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