{"id":418630,"date":"2024-06-17T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=418630"},"modified":"2024-06-17T13:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T17:12:25","slug":"wendell-castle-starfish-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wendell-castle-starfish-table\/","title":{"rendered":"This Wendell Castle Table Would Be the Absolute Star of Any Beach House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/tables\/console-tables\/wendell-castle-starfish-console-table-polychromed-stained-woods-1995\/id-f_27238852\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-885x950.jpg\" alt=\"Wendell Castle's 1995 Voyage starfish-shaped table\" class=\"wp-image-418868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-885x950.jpg 885w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-326x350.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-112x120.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-768x825.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-869x933.jpg 869w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/tables\/console-tables\/wendell-castle-starfish-console-table-polychromed-stained-woods-1995\/id-f_27238852\/\">Wendell Castle Voyage console table, 1995, offered by Satyricon<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes a creative pioneer? In the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/wendell-castle\/\">Wendell Castle<\/a>, the Kansas-born designer who has often been called the father of the art furniture movement, it was a daydreamer\u2019s vision and the ability to actualize it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/remembering-wendell-castle\/\">Castle\u2019s career began in the 1950s<\/a> and continued through to the end of his life, in 2018. His ideas were blazingly original, performing a distinctive dance between the sculptural and the functional. The forms that whirled around his mind were whimsical and adventurous. The trick was developing the techniques to bring them into being.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/wendell-castle\/furniture\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"865\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-865x950.jpg\" alt=\"A black-and-white photo of furniture designer Wendell Castle wearing a T-shirt and jeans and sitting outdoors\" class=\"wp-image-418894\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-865x950.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-319x350.jpg 319w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-109x120.jpg 109w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-768x843.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop-850x933.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-AAA-AAA_fendgall_3286-Doug-Stewart-Wendell-Castle-1969-Fendrick-Gallery-records-1952-2001-Archives-of-American-Art-Smithsonian-Institution-border-crop.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/wendell-castle\/\">Castle<\/a>, seen here in 1969, was at the forefront of the art furniture movement of the late-20th century. Photo by Doug Stewart, courtesy of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Castle\u2019s ingenuity and technical mastery are on full display in the 1995 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/tables\/console-tables\/wendell-castle-starfish-console-table-polychromed-stained-woods-1995\/id-f_27238852\/\">starfish-shaped console table<\/a> he called Voyage. The piece is a culmination of the explorations that fueled his work from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his career, Castle looked to nature for formal inspiration as well as the materials to realize his ideas. His projects were made possible by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/wendell-castle-friedman-benda\/\">the innovative use of stacked lamination<\/a>, in which he fused multiple pieces of wood to create a larger, sculptable block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than allowing the wood\u2019s natural qualities to lead the way, \u00e0 la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/sam-maloof\/\">Sam Maloof<\/a>, Castle defined the direction, embracing the potential to craft on a larger scale with greater creative latitude.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/wendell-castle\/furniture\/tables\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"713\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-713x950.jpg\" alt=\"A closeup of the base of Wendell Castle's 1995 Voyage starfish-shaped table\" class=\"wp-image-418877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-713x950.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-90x120.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail-700x933.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-detail.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The table&#8217;s starfish-shaped base was carved with a chainsaw and embellished with a crackled lacquer finish.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Voyage, Castle applied this process to stellar effect. \u201cThe base was stack laminated and then shaped with a chainsaw prior to hand tooling and finishing,\u201d explains Dina Alfano, owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/satyricon\/\">Satyricon Antiques<\/a>, which is offering the piece on 1stDibs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the base from jelutong and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/mahogany\/\">mahogany<\/a> before treating it with a polychrome finish and adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/walnut\/\">walnut<\/a> tabletop. \u201cWhile its simple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/biomorphic-furniture\/\">biomorphic<\/a> top is classic Castle, its zoomorphic, almost ambulant base \u2014 with its surface finished in brightly colored and crackled lacquer \u2014 is a signature of his rogue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/post-modern\/\">postmodern<\/a> period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/wendell-castle\/furniture\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-950x713.jpg\" alt=\"A detail of the signature and date on Wendell Castle's 1995 Voyage starfish-shaped table\" class=\"wp-image-418871\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-950x713.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-467x350.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed-1244x933.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Satyricon-Wendell-Castle-Starfish-Console-Table-in-Polychromed-and-Stained-Woods-1995-signed.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The signed and dated piece is documented in Castle&#8217;s catalogue raisonn\u00e9.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alfano notes that the signed and dated piece has broad appeal, attracting even those who find Castle\u2019s works from that era difficult to approach: \u201cExperimental without venturing too far out, it epitomizes Castle\u2019s sense of wit and fantasy and, 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