Wendell Castle

Art / 23 Jan 2018

King Castle: remembering Wendell Castle, as we knew him, in his upstate New York home

Art furniture pioneer Wendell Castle passed away on 20 January. The following is an article originally featured in the December 2009 issue of Wallpaper* (W*129). Hurtling past a Currier & Ives landscape, windshield-wipers working overtime, the car gladly pulls up...

Art / 22 Jan 2018

Art furniture pioneer Wendell Castle dies aged 85

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 – announced that the much celebrated American craftsman, designer...

Design / 7 Sep 2017

Pierre Yovanovitch’s playful debut furniture collection is 20 years in the making

When French interior architect Pierre Yovanovitch unveiled his furniture at R & Company gallery in New York recently, he did so under the title ‘Oops’. This might suggest that his show materialised by happy accident, or that it is somehow...

Design / 23 Oct 2015

Mr Robot-o: Wendell Castle goes digital to take his sculptures to new heights

For nearly 60 years, Wendell Castle has been working in a creative territory very much of his own making, hybridizing furniture and sculpture. With ‘Wendell Castle Remastered,’ which opened this week at New York’s Museum of Arts and...

Design / 16 Oct 2015

Pavilion of Art and Design London 2015: the Wallpaper* edit

PAD, the unofficial sister event to Frieze Art Fair, opened this week for its annual gallery gathering in London’s Berkeley Square. This year, the Mayfair location factored in more high design than its antique-heavy preceding years, celebrating an exquisite mix...

Art / 11 Jan 2013

A New Environment by Wendell Castle at Friedman Benda gallery, New York

’I never thought about art when I was young, but I did like to draw’ says furniture artist Wendell Castle, surveying his new exhibition at New York’s Friedman Benda gallery. ’And when the neighbourhood kids were building a tree house...