His siblings include barrister John de Waal, ceramic artist and writer Edmund de Waal, and Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal.
The building is also home to Edmund de Waal's first piece of public sculpture, A Local History, a commission of three vitrines filled with porcelain and sunk into the pavement outside the building.
In 2011 Edmund was commissioned by Phaidon Press to write "The Pot Book", a colour-illustrated anthology of 300 ceramic vessels.
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His work remained broadly within the Anglo-Oriental tradition but he also studied the modernists, and the Bauhaus movement in particular.
The history of the building and the family is described in great detail in "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal, whose grandmother - Elisabeth de Waal née Ephrussi, born 1899 - spent her childhood and youth there; De Waal combined first-hand information from her with extensive research in available documents.
The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) is a family memoir by British ceramicist Edmund de Waal.
Edmund Burke | Edmund Spenser | Edmund Hillary | Edmund Wilson | Edmund Husserl | Edmund Muskie | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | Edmund Barton | Edmund the Martyr | Edmund Rubbra | Edmund Kirby Smith | Edmund Gosse | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | George Edmund Street | Edmund Kean | Edmund Francis Law | Edmund Campion | St Edmund Hall, Oxford | Edmund Sharpe | Edmund Blunden | Edmund | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' | Edmund White | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York | Edmund Ignatius Rice | Edmund Curll | Clifford Edmund Bosworth | Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet | Edmund Reitter |