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Building: A Carpenter's Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work

By Mark Ellison
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Unabridged — 9 hours, 21 minutes
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By Mark Ellison
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Unabridged — 9 hours, 21 minutes
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Dubbed "the man who gets hired to build impossible things" by the New Yorker, Mark Ellison's list of clients is as exclusive as it gets. In Building, he pulls back the curtain on a niche, high-stakes and elite occupational community, and it reads like the best workplace drama. With sketches, photos and illustrations, this is a complete book, brimming with entertainment value.

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York's most iconic spaces.

For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you've never seen, specializing in rarefied, lavish, and challenging projects for the most demanding of clients. He built a staircase that the architect Santiago Calatrava called a masterpiece. He constructed the sculpted...