Guy Wolff: Master Potter in the Garden

Guy Wolff started producing the classic English style planters, throwing these huge pots in his pottery studio which he built himself. He had studied the masters from England.Guy has been featured in many gardening magazines. He throws on the wheel standing up because of the mass of the clay needed to create the huge pots. This book is about his life and how he has sustained himself being a potter. Very interesting reading with wonderful pictures. His pots are terra cotta and created to hold plants in the garden. Guy decorates with his signature design and sometimes a simple texture on the rims, or tops of the vessels. The planters are large with plenty of room for the roots to grow. They are strong with large drain holes the water can drain out easily. The author met Guy when he delivered pots she had ordered for her store. She loved them so much she ended up placing her plants in all of them. Guy had delivered the load of pots packed in straw in the back of his pick-up truck. An informative look at a down-to-earth man who has his hands in clay.I remember reading about Guy Wolff in Martha Stewart's magazine years ago. Now, he still is creating and adding some utilitarian dishes and plates to his collection for sale. A great book for those interested in pottery and gardening.

A book about Guy Wolff and his distinguished career is long overdue. His work is widely admired and increasingly acknowledged the most beautifully crafted horticultural pottery produced in modern times. Beyond that, Guy Wolff has brought forgotten or neglected design to the attention of those who maintain the most important gardens, museums, and estates in the country. He is celebrated, in part due to his exceptionally charismatic good humor and genuine interest in all who meet him, but he remains far more modest than a man of his talent and popularity should reasonably be. I have been fortunate in knowing Guy Wolff for much of my life, and this book is a thorough and sensitive account of the experiences and influences that brought this notable body of work into being. Suzanne Staubach, the author, has pieced together a story that reflects the history of art and craft from Mid-Century America to the present day. Her obvious enthusiasm for Wolff's work animates her prose, and her research has been thorough. The photographs by Joseph Szalay could not have been more effective in illustrating the evolution and range of Wolff's craft.This is a beautiful book; I can't imagine any reader not dropping happily into its well connected chapters, then moving immediately to buy as many of Wolff's pots as this craftsman can produce. I risk hyperbole in asserting that Wolff is a national treasure and one very much deserving of a project such as Staubach, a potter herself, has produced.

I think that the book was not only informative but very informational about his life. I find it amazing of all the things he has did. This is a 5 star book. Eddie from eddiespottery on youtube.

This book is a great effort to document a unique person and his work.It very much captures the subject, even though as the author admits, that is a challenge with someone such as Guy Wolff.Creating this record of the man and his work is deserving of praise.

My mother collects this pottery and enjoyed reading this book.

The best American Potter for garden's ever. The Rockefeller farm used them. Classy story and well printed volume.

Love this book

Good read .

Extremely well written and the photos are great. This book enlightens the reader to the artist and his craft in a way that is very personal. I am now planning a trip to Connecticut next summer to see Guy Wolf's studio and purchase more of his pots.