Wendell Castle, master furniture maker, designer, sculptor, and educator, is in the sixth decade of a prodigious lifework that began in 1958 and aligns with the development of the American art furniture movement. Wendell Castle Remastered is an emblematic exhibition that blends the artist’s seminal works with his current collection, produced with digital technology. In part a self-reflection, this eponymous, full-color companion book examines some of Castle’s historically representative works as well as significant contemporary furniture pieces, continuing his highly respected and acclaimed sculptural/functional dialogue. Castle, now 83 and ever the innovator, is remarkable for his openness to new technologies; he has not only embraced an initially complex practice, but has “remastered” it.

Glenn Adamson is the director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Ronald T. Labaco is the Marcia Docter curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. Lowery Stokes Sims, retired curator emerita at the Museum of Arts and Design, was executive director, then president, of The Studio Museum in Harlem and was on the education and curatorial staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Decorative arts historian Samantha De Tillio is curatorial assistant at the Museum of Arts and Design. Amy Cheatle, social technologist and visual artist at Cornell University, researches collaborative and creative endeavors mediated through technology. Steven J. Jackson is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University.