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Published by Hudson Hills Press / Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 1555950337ISBN 13: 9781555950330
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Softcover. Darkest green & color illus. wraps. 152 pp. 32 bw, 44 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 1989-1991 exhibitions of creations by American furniture artist Wendell Castle (b. 1932). With three essays: by Davira S. Taragin and Edward Cooke, Jr., "The Career of Wendell Castle", by Joseph Giovanni, "Wendell Castle: Occupying the Blur", and by Wendell Castle, "On Commissions", bibliography, index, and exhibition history. Annotated catalogue lists 41 works, and many are pictured here. Lavishly illustrated with excellent color plates of these amazing pieces of furniture! VG (Covers are slightly scuffed, otherwise clean.).
First wrappers edition. Square 8vo; 152 pp.; illustrated from sketches and photographs, including forty-three color plates. A good copy or better in pictorial wrappers. A monograph on the art-furniture designer Wendell Castle, with a focus on Castle's work in the context of the Studio Craft movement. INSCRIBED by Castle.