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replaced or repaired in the back. His workshop is tucked at the rear of his
small (250 square feet or so) retail space, just steps away from his larger
and more famous neighbor, Silverhorn.
Gibbings was born in the seaside city of Durban, South Africa,
graduated high school, and served in his country’s military (Army) before
setting off for Israel to study art in what he calls “a little school in an
old, old building in the old city of Jaffa,” where he worked as a waiter at
night in order to pay for the one-year program. From there, he headed for
London to study in a more traditional way.
“After I left South Africa, I traveled a number of years through the
Middle East and Europe,” Gibbings relates during a leisurely conversation
in his showroom-studio. He says he was “just fascinated by the early work”
on display in museums in Jerusalem, Cairo, and ultimately in the British
Museum in London. “When I was studying in London I would go to the
museum to sketch and to get inspiration; that’s how it all evolved,” he says.
Daniel married an American girl (
Laura
) he met in his travels and
eventually moved to the States, living first as a teacher at North Bennett
Daniel Gibbings makes nearly everything he sells in his Coast Village Road location,
hammering, soldering, filing, and shaping his creations on an anvil in the small
workshop/studio that opens onto his retail shop