First edition of the first major monograph on the work of American sculptor Wendell Castle. Published in 1989 and long out-of-print, this profusely illustrated monograph presents the extraordinarily inventive and influential furniture/sculpture of Castle, a trailblazer in the maturation of the Studio Craft movement in America, whose groundbreaking work has consistently challenged the traditional concept of wooden furniture design and construction with innovative works that transcend a reverence for material, going beyond obvious technical virtuosity and mastery of craft tradition to explore conceptual issues. From his early furniture works to his later « Post-Modernist » architectural/sculptural forms (a label disregarded by Castle), Furniture by Wendell Castle places the artist’s oeuvre within the contexts of both the emerging postwar crafts movement and mainstream American art of the past three decades.
Wendell Castle (1932-2018) is regarded as the father of the American studio movement. His innovative work in stack-laminated wood and gel-coated fiberglass from the ’60s and ’70s is coveted by museums and collectors all over the world.
