Buyers are capitalising on the burgeoning market for collectible furniture as prices and popularity continue to increase, according to pioneer of the American studio craft movement, Wendell Castle.
"Prices continue to increase, but when compared to paintings, furniture is still a relative bargain," said Castle, speaking to Dezeen shortly after the opening of his latest exhibition, Planting Seeds, at Carpenter's Workshop Gallery in Paris.
"The divide between painting and 'design as art' is getting fuzzier and fuzzier," he said. "Museums are now commonly displaying furniture in the painting galleries."
Wendell Castle spoke to Dezeen shortly after the opening of his latest exhibition, Planting Seeds, at Carpenter's Workshop Gallery in Paris Castle's own work straddles both the categories of art and design. His sculptural pieces take reference from natural forms; curved nooks will often be juxtaposed with flat surfaces jutting out at an angle.
His works can be found in the collections of numerous international museums, including the V&A, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Born in the US in 1932, Castle has been a sculptor and designer for more than four decades. In the early 1970s, in a rapidly expanding industrial society, his pieces took a sculptural form as he started working with plywood.
Throughout his career, Castle has focussed on wood as his...