To celebrate the publication of his new book “How To Build Impossible Things”, we are thrilled to welcome Mark Ellison – the best carpenter in New York – here to Hatchards this evening in conversation with fashion writer Charlie Porter.
Over the past forty years, Mark Ellison has worked on some of the most beautiful homes you've never seen, specializing in rarefied and challenging projects with the most demanding of clients. But before any of that, Ellison was just 'a serial dropout' who spent his young adult years taking work where he found it and sleeping on couches.
This evening, Mark will discuss his life and the unconventional education in the world of architecture that led him to design extraordinary masterpieces in many famous homes.
Charlie Porter is a renowned fashion-writer and design guru whose books include “What Artists Wear” and, coming this autumn, “Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion”.
Do join us if you are able for what promises a fabulous evening of Life, Art and Carpentry!