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 Remastered featured furniture, lighting, and sculpture that was made using an array of techniques, from handcrafting to 3D scanning, modeling, and robotic milling.

Just four months ago, recalls R & Company co-founder Evan Snyderman, an 85-year-old Wendell Castle sat on the concrete floor of his Scottsville, New York studio, chisel in hand, carving away at ...

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, or to hold ...

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 ...

Artist Wendell Castle, often called the father of the art furniture movement, announced that he would give this work to Kansas University's Spencer Museum of Art. The polychromed fiberglass ...

What: "Wendell Castle Remastered" exhibition of works by the master furniture maker. When: Exhibition runs now through Dec. 31. Talk with Wendell Castle, 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19; included with ...

American sculptor and furniture designer Wendell Castle oiling a music rack he has created, Rochester, New York, 1966. David Netto. Contributing Editor. David Netto is a writer and interior designer.

Wendell Castle, sometimes dubbed the father — or grandfather — of the American art furniture movement, is continuing to push his art by creating digitally crafted pieces. He is an Emporia, Kan ...

Wendell Castle, widely recognized as the "father of the art furniture movement" and an Artist in Residence at RIT, died in his Scottsville home on Saturday at the age of 85, according to a press ...

“Wendell Castle Remastered” celebrates the artist and designer’s prolific career by mixing his earliest works with his most recent ones. Installation view of “Wendell Castle Remastered ...

On Saturday the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will open Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959–1979, an overdue first survey of the influential American furniture maker's formative ...