Wendell Castle's Home Life, Rebuilt Inside a Gallery

Friedman Benda has opened a new show that puts back together the private setting where Wendell Castle, one of the most important American furniture makers, did his work. The pieces include some that the public has hardly ever seen, displayed with ceramics and the everyday things of a household. For readers who care about how a house is lived in as much as how it is built, the point of the show is where it puts the work: a maker's furniture set among the objects that kept him company. It reads less like a row of masterpieces and more like the private rooms around them.

With reporting from Elle Decor.