Reminiscences of Wendell Castle [electronic resource] : oral history, 1985.

Biographical Note

Furniture designer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood; education at University of Kansas; United States Army, West Germany, 1954; teaching at School for American Craftsmen, Rochester, N.Y., 1962-1970 and at University at Brockport, 1970-1980; founding and directing of Woodworking School, Rochester, N.Y., 1980- , trends in his work: stack and strip lamination, trompe l'oeil carving, traditional forms.

Subjects

• Castle, Wendell, 1932-2018--Interviews.
• Furniture making.
• Interviews.
• Laminated wood.
• Oral histories.
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.
• Wood-carving.
• Woodwork.
• Woodworkers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987.