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De steenhouwers van de John Stevens Shop – Ode aan het vakmanschap…

By boekendingen on januari 8th, 2010

A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the craftsmen of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest business in the United States still in continuous operation in the same colonial building. It chronicles the work of John ‘Fud’ Benson, then the owner and principal designer, and, arguably, one of the most accomplished letter cutters in the world.
Arts & Crafts, Traditional, Work / Northeast / 1979.

• Deze trailer is een voorproefje van een 49 minuten durende documentaire die hier in zijn geheel is te zien.

The John Stevens Shop is one of the oldest continually operating businesses in the country. For 300 years, we have maintained an unbroken standard of excellence in the carving of stone inscriptions. Our work can be found on America’s most prominent buildings and monuments, and the Headstones of many of its most memorable families.

• Website van het bedrijf, met meer foto’s.

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