Wendell Castle Big D
Price on request
Unique
2017
Stained Ash, Oil Finish
182 x 80 x 100 cm
71.7 x 31.5 x 39.4 in
Wendell Castle combined the worlds of sculpture and design at a time when hand-crafted furniture followed strictly traditional rules.
His unconventional forms injected vitality into the American design scene. Acclaim at Milan’s 1964 Triennale cemented Castle’s success worldwide. Testament to his artistic longevity, half a century later Castle was still making unique sculptural forms, such as Big D, a single capacious seat carved from ash and stained black.
Artist
Wendell Castle
Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961. He moved to Rochester, New York to teach at the School for American Crafts and established a permanent studio in the area that is still in operation today. He reinvented himself for nearly six decades.
