It was Margaret, a member of the Woodland Trust, who drew my attention to their autumn edition of Broadleaf which featured a 'romantic ramble' , complete with cut-out map, to the ancient Currie Wood.

I want to impose my will on the wood," says Wendell Castle without irony, taming a gnarly hunk of Peruvian walnut with a 14-inch chain saw. The artist moves around the wood block in his Scottsville, ...

Wendell Castle, “Table-Chair-Stool” (1968) with “Serpentine Floor Lamp” (1965–67), installation view in ‘Wendell Castle Remastered’ at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (photo by the author for ...