"In the creation of each installation, there is not only no border between the craft and craftsman, but also between the work and the other people who experience it. The major attraction of a real craft lies in this unification. A new craft should bring a new emotion in our life."

"Bringing back the past and presenting to the present."

"The mantle is a salvaged piece of wood from a shipwreck that washed up on the beaches of Sapelo....."

"Wine barrel oak staves creates the conversation..."

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Meet the Artist

“I was asked to build a tabby fireplace in Kiawah Island and it was like this creative awakening,” Giltner said of mastering the artisanry technique centered around an oyster shell-based mixture that’s been a high-end Lowcountry building staple since Colonial days. “

For centuries, the Lowcountry was built on tabby. With the formula lost to the ages,

D. Pierce Giltner unveils his modern take on an ancient art.

Chocolate Plantation Sapelo Island, Georgia

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Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw

Tucked down a quiet country road on St. Helena Island, the ruined Chapel of Ease stands sedately under live oaks. Lizards scatter over its walls, which offer a study in texture: weather-stained plaster, eroded brick and a ragged surface of shell bits bleached white by the sun. The remains of this 18th-century structure are a hauntingly beautiful monument to one of the Lowcountry’s most enduring crafts, a type of oyster shell concrete known as tabby.

Story + Photography by Michele Roldán-Shaw

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