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Furniture by Wendell Castle

The book reproduces the artist’s most important works, including clocks and trompe l’oeil pieces, in full-color plates, including many details and multiple views
Also includes black-and-white illustrations of working drawings by Castle and works by artists who have influenced him as well as other fine artists and architects who have designed furniture
Wendell Castle has written, especially for this volume, an essay on commissions

The last generation has seen the maturation of the Studio Craft movement in America and a dramatic change in furniture making. The trailblazer in both phenomena has been Wendell Castle, an extraordinarily inventive and influential artist whose works as a whole embodies the development of handcrafted furniture as a major art form.

He has consistently challenged the traditional concept of wooden furniture design and construction, using wood to create new, highly expressive forms, thus becoming a major catalyst in the emergence of the art-furniture movement over the past thirty years. He has created innovative works that transcend a reverence for material and express a concern for meaning rather than function. His recent breakthrough work goes beyond obvious technical virtuosity and mastery of craft tradition to concentrate on conceptual issues. He has even moved into Post-Modernist architectural forms (although he denies the label), into design, and into painted sculpture.

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.

(best viewed in Large)

Once one of the many antique dealers of the famous Achterhoek antique route (largest in Europe).
This route goes from the city Doesburg all the way to Anholt (Germany), passing towns like Doetinchem, Gaanderen, Terborg, Ulft and Gendringen. It’s a popular site for tourists, mainly from Holland and Germany. According to a persistent rumour even popstar Michael Jackson bought his antique furniture here.
Nowadays many of these antique dealers quit their business or move elsewhere, often leaving the buildings in a very poor shape due to many years of neglect. This old factory will be demolished.

(best viewed in Large)

Once one of the many antique dealers of the famous Achterhoek antique route (largest in Europe).
This route goes from the city Doesburg all the way to Anholt (Germany), passing towns like Doetinchem, Gaanderen, Terborg, Ulft and Gendringen. It’s a popular site for tourists, mainly from Holland and Germany. According to a persistent rumour even popstar Michael Jackson bought his antique furniture here.
Nowadays many of these antique dealers quit their business or move elsewhere, often leaving the buildings in a very poor shape due to many years of neglect. This old factory will be demolished.