Western Australian Museum, Perth, 2019.

The publication is soft cover 228 pages, 220 x 220mm, lavishly illustrated in full colour, glossary, CV, bibliography, references and index.

The book celebrates Philip’s achievements as a major Australian designer–maker and traces his evolution as a master craftsman, discusses the influences on his design concepts throughout his career, the people he has worked with, his working methods and values regarding art, design and skill, his role in education and significant exhibitions and commissions.

“ Philip Noakes is a master when it comes to gold and silver and in this elegant and erudite new publication published by the Western Australian Museum we are served up an extraordinary feast of of eye watering beauty and painstaking description of every aspect of this passion by another noted exponent of the silversmith’s art, writer and artist jeweller Dorothy Erickson. Although the 228 pages describe in perfect detail the traditional as well as the new and innovative techniques Noakes employs in his relentless output, this nevertheless is a book for everyone, not only students and other silversmiths. It is a supremely enjoyable and un-put-downable read.” Carolynne Skinner editor of OZ Arts