Glenn Wood

Strings Magazine - Erin Shrader

Review date: 05/01/2009

....Glenn Wood has captured three centuries of the case maker's craft in his new book. Case making, it turns out, was regional, making use of local materials and reflecting the national aesthetic. But most of all, some of these cases are simply beautiful, whether it's exuberant virtuoso Italian craftsmanship, the understated, perfectly proportioned English aesthetic; or the tooled-leather, holster-style cases made in the United States around 1910. After reading Wood's book, you'll come to appreciate cases as never before...