We are so pleased to be reviewed in the Wall Street Journal.
“The Globemakers presents an esoteric history of globes, a detailed description of how the author builds them and an account of his company’s development. The most arresting feature of the book is its appearance, for which the publisher, Bloomsbury, and the book’s designer, Dave Brown, deserve particular notice. The Globemakers is a lovely object, beautifully conceived and skillfully executed. With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs, it encourages the reader to linger and explore. In that sense the rectangular book echoes the round object it chronicles…Globes are like other anachronisms that reflect the way things were: solid, durable, based on a knowable past instead of an uncertain future. A beautiful globe in a handsome library is the essence of romance. In this sense, it is right that a book should be the medium to commemorate Bellerby & Co’s unlikely success. Yet artisanship of this type does something else: It rewards a desire for tactile engagement in a digital era, when so much daily ephemera comes and goes with our hands never touching it. Mr. Bellerby captures this basic human impulse by reporting what many visitors to his studio request. After admiring a globe and then tentatively stepping closer, they often ask—to his delight—’May I spin it?’”
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