{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-nutcrackers-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Nutcrackers (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Nutcrackers is a large-format coffee table book about the nutcracker and its companions, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. It shows the wooden Christmas of the Ore Mountains as still life, from the lathe and the painter's bench to the windowsill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with the figures: a tall king in a red coat with a gold crown and a white fur beard, a hussar in a black fur cap and a blue jacket laced with gold cord, a forester holding a small turned fir tree, a knight in silver-grey armour and a king in a purple robe dotted with gold stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the workshop: an old wood-turning lathe in a whitewashed room, a half-turned body held in the lathe, an old timber mill with a water wheel hung with icicles, and the parts of an unpainted nutcracker laid out in rows. Then the painter's bench: a figure half painted red with its face still bare wood, and rows of painted smokers on a long board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen incense smokers: a pipe smoker with a long wooden pipe, a smoker opened in two with its cone on a little metal plate, and a peddler with a tray of tiny turned wares.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen candle arches: an old arch of black forged iron with a cut-out sun, moon and stars, an arch half sawn on a fretsaw table and a triangular arch with a forest and a deer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen lanterns and the Christmas mountain: a landscape of moss and roots on a corner shelf with tiny houses, a white church and a little mine, and a lantern of fretsawn wood glowing red, orange and green. Then shelves and windowsills: an old painted corner shelf of figures, and an old king with faded paint and a chipped crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, snow light and candlelight: a smoker on a low table in a lamplit parlour, a miner's oil lamp just put out, a small hussar in the snow on a garden wall, and a bare sill with a faint ring in the dust and one nutcracker left standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about the figures, how they are made and the customs of the Ore Mountains, rather than about the pictures: what incense cones are made of, what the arms, feet and faces of the first wooden smokers were modelled from, which way a candle pyramid traditionally turns, and since when turned wooden angels have carried candles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68151884120368,"sku":"9671456005324","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456005324.jpg?v=1792665316","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-nutcrackers-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}