This richly illustrated book presents examples of creativity and technical accomplishment by artists working in wood. Sixty-one wooden vessel forms represent the highest achievements from the past 15 years by both leading and relatively unknown artists in the United States, England, and Australia.Essays provide a historical lineage of the handmade object, trace relationships between these works and key sculptures of the earlier 20th century, supply a critical framework for wooden vessels of the post-World War II era, and offer an unparalleled technological history and current perspective on vessel making in wood.