Review of 'Setting Up a Pottery Workshop'

Primarily geared for those who are setting up a professional pottery workshop, this book does contain good information and a wealth of tips that will be helpful to the hobbyist or pleasure potter as well. I especially recommend Young's DIY shelving and tool tips, but was surprised at the lack of sample floor plans.

Setting Up a Pottery Workshop covers a lot of ground, and the ground it covers, for the most part, it covers very well. This is definitely a book with a lot to offer. Certainly, Young's flow chart of pottery activities is a huge help in understanding how to group work areas, but in a book with this title, I expected more.

I was rather dismayed at the lack of attention to the question of layout if you were building a pottery workshop from the ground up. Although I understand and agree with Young's position that most pottery workshops are created out of 'found' space, I was very disappointed that he did not give one sample floor plan. At the very least, floor plans of the fourteen example pottery workshops he discusses in the last chapter would have also been pertinent, interesting , and useful.