'Abilene' rocker
Designer
Wendell Castle
Year
2008
Design Museum Section
American Studio Furniture | Craft
Design-Art: Limited Editions | One-Offs
Design in Stainless Steel
Categories
Rocking chairs
Designheroes ID
50802
Auction House
Phillips
Headquarter
New York, United States
Materials
Stainless_steel
Condition
pre-owned/vintage
Sale name
Design
Sale Location
New York, United States
'Abilene' rocker
Stainless steel.
2008
29 1/2 x 30 x 53 3/4 in. (74.9 x 76.2 x 136.5 cm)
Number 1 from the edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs and 2 prototypes.
Incised Castle 08 1/8. Together with the original drawing signed and dated by the artist.
Literature
Wendell Castle, exh. cat., Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 2008, fig. 62 for a drawing
David Linley et. al., Star Pieces: The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular Furniture, New York, 2009, p. 35
Emily Evans Eerdmans, Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1958-2012, New York, 2014, p. 397, no. V.36
Provenance
Friedman Benda, Ltd., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner