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I know your street rather well. Count Moise de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story.

Geschichte ist nicht Vergangenheit, sie hört nie auf und entfaltet sich in unseren Händen. Das schreibt Edmund de Waal in seinem neuen Buch, das ihn zurückführt in die Pariser Rue de Monceau, in der einst sein Vorfahre Charles Ephrussi den berühmten »Hasen mit den Bernsteinaugen« hütete, wo in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft Marcel Proust wohnte und wo der Bankier Moïse de Camondo aus Konstantinopel ein Palais errichten ließ, in dem sich heute ein...

A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de CamondoLetters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art.The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, "th...

Count Moise de Camondo was a Jewish collector and philanthropist who lived on the famous rue de Monceau, Paris, at the same time as the Ephrussi (the forebears of Edmund de Waal, who famously appear in The Hare with Amber Eyes). Like the Ephrussi, Count Camondo and his family were part of Belle Époque Parisian high society. They were also targets of ugly anti-semitism.Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house, modelled on the Petit Trianon,...

Published to mark the display of library of exile at the British Museum, this beautifully produced new book reflects on the themes raised by de Waal's thought-provoking work of art. The introduction from Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, positions the artwork within the wider context of the Museum's collection, highlighting the dialogue between objects from across time and throughout history and the contemporary. Finally, de Waa...

This richly illustrated book presents the Jeffrey Montgomery collection of traditional Japanese art, one of the foremost collections of this art in the world. Superb examples of lacquerware and metalwork, basketry, textiles, furniture, masks, sculpture, paintings, toys and ceramics, are organized by medium in five sections. These utilitarian objects of everyday life date from the Muromachi period ((1392-1568) to the early Meiji period (1868-19...

Una manciata di minuscole sculture giapponesi ha ispirato a Edmund de Waal "Un'eredità di avorio e ambra". E una manciata di candidi detriti raccolta sul monte Kao-Ling, in Cina, spinge l'autore a esclamare "Questo è il mio inizio". L'inizio di un viaggio sulle tracce dell'"oro bianco", per raccontare la storia della porcellana. Qui lo seguiamo da Jingdezhen a Venezia, a Versailles, a Dublino, a Dresda, fino alle colline della Cornovaglia e ai...

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Un'elegante vetrina nella casa londinese di Edmund de Waal contiene 264 sculture giapponesi di avorio, o legno, non più grandi di una scatola di fiammiferi, raffiguranti divinità, personaggi di ogni tipo, animali, piante. La vetrina è aperta, e i piccoli figli di de Waal possono estrarre i netsuke così si chiamano i minuscoli oggetti - e giocarci. Come facevano, ha scoperto l'autore, i piccoli figli di Viktor e Emmy von Ephrussi, suoi bisnonni...

Wien, 1950er Jahre: Jeden Donnerstag treffen sich bei Theophil Kanakis Künstler, Schauspielerinnen, Journalisten. Von den Verfolgungen der Kriegszeit spricht hier keiner, neu beginnen will auch Kuno Adler, jüdischer Wissenschaftler, zurückgekehrt aus dem Exil. Er hofft, seine Arbeit dort weiterführen zu können, wo er sie verlassen musste. Aber er trifft auf Ausflüchte, Geringschätzung und Feindseligkeit. Und da ist Marie-Theres, das Mädchen au...

Eine der großen literarischen Entdeckungen des Jahres 2011 war "Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen". Edmund de Waal, Nachkomme der jüdischen Familie Ephrussi, erzählt darin von 264 Netsuke, kostbare Miniatur-Schnitzereien aus Japan, die er von seinem Großonkel geerbt hat. Und von der außergewöhnlichen Geschichte seiner Familie, die vom Paris der Belle Époque ins Wien des Fin de siècle und vom Tokio der 1950er Jahre über Odessa nach London führt. ...

From the author of "The Hare With Amber Eyes", which has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide, this blends the dramatic story for the hunt for porcelain, from the 17th century to today, with a memoir of Edmund de Waal's own life as a potter. Ranges throughout the world, from China to the palaces of Versailles and Dresden, to 18th century Plymouth and the settlements of the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.

Wie in seinem Bestseller "Der Hase mit den Bernsteinaugen" beweist Edmund de Waal hier seine großartige Fähigkeit, Privates und Historisches ineinanderfließen zu lassen. Es war in Japan, als Edmund de Waal mit 17 das erste Mal Porzellanerde in die Hand bekam. Seither arbeitet er mit diesem Material, und er hat wunderbare Kunstwerke daraus geschaffen. Nun macht er sich auf Spurensuche nach dem Stoff, an dem sich über Jahrhunderte die Phantasie ...

Having spent 30 years making beautiful pots, de Waal has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story.

Potters long ago left behind the notion that pots must be purely useful or merely pleasant everyday objects.

More than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which summarizes, in the story of a family, the history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. An evocative text of great beauty that begins with a small hare with amber eyes that mixes in a pocket...

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Tegen het einde van de negentiende eeuw koopt Charles Ephrussi, een schatrijke graanhandelaar en kunstliefhebber, een verzameling netsukes: traditionele Japanse figuren van ivoor of hout. De kostbare beeldjes worden een geliefd familiebezit. Wanneer veertig jaar later de nazi's Wenen bezetten en de Joodse Ephrussi's word afgevoerd, is ook het lot van de collectie onzeker. Dankzij een onverwachte wending en de moed van één vrouw vinden de beeld...

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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who "burned like a comet" in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of n...