Edmund de Waal Books in Order

Edmund de Waal examines Bernard Leach’s career, artistic influences, and place in the development of studio pottery. The study follows his formative years in Japan, his return to St Ives, and the international influence of his work and teaching.

A visual survey of ceramic design presents work by seventy artists through two hundred and fifty color photographs. The collection offers examples of different approaches to the medium, bringing individual makers and their finished pieces into focus.

This illustrated reference surveys ceramic vessels across cultures and thousands of years, from ancient bowls to modern artists’ designs. Alphabetical entries connect makers, schools, and styles, tracing the range of objects people have shaped from clay.

Edmund de Waal follows the history of porcelain from Chinese workshops to European courts and later centers of production. His journey explores the material’s beauty, the ambitions it inspired, and the human costs behind an enduring obsession.

Edmund de Waal and curator Charlotte Vignon explore his installations among the Frick Collection’s historic artworks. Photographs and essays consider how porcelain, steel, glass and other materials create new conversations with the museum’s objects, spaces and history.

Reflecting on his installation Library of Exile, Edmund de Waal explores books, displacement, and the movement of ideas across borders. The volume follows the artwork’s journey and its connection to preserving and rebuilding collections in places shaped by loss.

Through imagined letters to collector Moise de Camondo, Edmund de Waal reflects on a Parisian house, its artworks, and the family that created it. Their history opens questions about assimilation, antisemitism, memory, and what collections preserve after catastrophe.

Writings and ceramics by Axel Salto are placed in conversation with Edmund de Waal’s work and reflections. Combining archival material with a new essay, the book considers how language, memory, images, and clay inform their different artistic practices.

Edmund de Waal explores his grandmother’s correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke and her later encouragement of his own creative ambitions. Letters, poems, and images trace artistic beginnings, the search for guidance, and the persistence required to keep making work.