Wendell Castle, Rochester, N.Y letter to Lee Nordness, New York, N.Y.

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Object Details

Creator

Castle, Wendell, 1932-2018

Nordness, Lee

Place of publication, production, or execution

Other

Physical Description

Letter : 1 p. : typescript ; 28 x 22 cm.

Summary

A draft of a response to Nordness' letter of 4 Nov. 1966 requesting Castle design the furniture for his new penthouse apartment. Castle describes his progress, and writes that he "has been devoting about two hours a day to your design. The ideas are just now starting to fall into place..."

Citation

Wendell Castle. Wendell Castle, Rochester, N.Y letter to Lee Nordness, New York, N.Y., 1966. Wendell Castle papers, 1965-1975. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Use Note

Current copyright status is undetermined

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560

Date

1966

Record number

(DSI-AAA)208

Type

Correspondence

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Wendell Castle papers, 1965-1975

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Topic

Furniture

Furniture design

Furniture designers

Interior design

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

AAADCD_item_208