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Artist |
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Wendell Castle |
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Title |
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A superb two-seat sofa
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Medium |
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walnut |
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Size |
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28.7 x 55.5 x 28 in. / 73 x 140.9 x 71.1 cm. |
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Year |
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1967 - |
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Description |
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1967
incised W.C. 67
walnut |
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Edition |
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unique |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Sotheby's New York: Saturday, June 14, 2008
[Lot 105]
Important 20th Century Design
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
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Literature |
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"Fantasy Furniture," Interiors, February 1966, p. 115 (for a similar single-seat variant with table shown in the 1966 "Fantasy Furniture" exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York)
Michael Stone, Contemporary American Woodworkers, Salt Lake City, UT, 1986, p. 114 (for a three-seat variant)
Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovanni, Furniture by Wendell Castle, New York, 1989, p. 44 (for a similar two-seat sofa)
Wendell Castle, exh. cat., Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York, 2008, pp. 24-25 and p. 71 (for a similar example executed in 2006)
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