A 1989 headline in the Detroit Free Press declared him to be “The man who makes furniture dance.” "Objects: USA" exhibit installation with a view of Table-Chair-Stool by Wendell Castle ...

Happily reclined, as though he had made himself at home in a craggy, natural rock formation that was never meant for human comfort, Wendell ... Castle was legendary in both the furniture and ...

"Wendell will forever be remembered as ... mired in tradition and he transformed the notion of what furniture could be." Castle's work was not without challenge. There were times when his ideas ...

SCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. — Wendell Castle, a visionary woodworker, furniture-maker and sculptor who became one of the most acclaimed artists ever to call Rochester home, has died at the age of 85.

Wendell Castle, 83, sometimes dubbed the father — or grandfather — of the American art furniture movement, has, throughout his 57-year career, employed creative new techniques in works that ...

Wendell Castle, a visionary woodworker, furniture-maker and sculptor who became one of the most acclaimed artists ever to call Rochester home, has died at the age of 85. Mr. Castle died late ...

The Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University has several Wendell Castle artworks in its collection, and will soon have one more. Castle announced last week that he would give “Nirvana” (2007 ...

Carved from stacked layers of ash by a robot, then hand finished, stained and oiled, it epitomises the charismatic sculptural furniture pioneered in the 1960s by the late Wendell Castle ...

Wendell Castle, the legendary sculptural furniture designer and craftsman, will have his legacy continue through a new school founded in his name at the site of his studio in Scottsville ...

Wendell Castle, an artist known as the father of art furniture whose masterworks were exhibited in preeminent museums of the United States but were also objects to be sat or eaten upon ...

Art furniture pioneer Wendell Castle has died aged 85, after a battle with leukaemia. RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) – where Castle was an artist-in-residence and taught from 1962 to 1969 – ...