II.270 Gannett Reception Desk, c. 1976

Sculpture

Wendell Castle Archives

Name/Title

II.270 Gannett Reception Desk, c. 1976

Entry/Object ID

sc.0319.1976

Type of Sculpture

Free Standing

Artwork Details

Medium

Walnut

Collection

Desks, Gannett Co., Inc., 1970s

Cataloged By

[email protected]

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Wendell Castle

Role

Artist

Date made

circa 1976

Time Period

1970s

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Catalogue Raisonné Number

Other Number

II.270

Dimensions

Height

38-3/4 in

Width

112 in

Depth

45 in

Height

98.4 cm

Width

284.5 cm

Depth

114.3 cm

Color

Brown

Inventory

Inventoried By

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Inventoried Date

Sep 30, 2026

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Beverly Hafner Associates

Place

City

Rochester

State/Province

New York

Provenance Detail

Gannett Co., Inc.

Place

City

Rochester

State/Province

New York

Provenance Detail

Unknown private collection

General Notes

Note Type

Literature

Note

Wendell Castle and David Edman, The Wendell Castle Book of Wood Lamination (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980). Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959-1979 (New York: Gregory R. Miller and Co., 2012). Davira S. Taragin, Edward S. Cooke, Jr., and Joseph Giovannini, Furniture by Wendell Castle (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989).

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

September 30, 2026

Updated By

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Update Date

October 7, 2026