Wendell Castle designed eight lamps to be presented in the 1970 exhibition Sculpted Furniture Forms at the Manhattan gallery of Lee Nordness. Using the same basic unit, Castle produced an array of intensely colored, whimsical shapes. Reflecting Castle’s infatuation with automobiles, the lamps were typically finished in automobile enamels and lacquers, some with shimmering metal flecks. In these lamps, Castle wandered further from function into unexpected form, characteristically blurring the boundaries between sculpture and furniture in ways that were typical of the free-wheeling 1960s. “These are incidentally sculptures,” Nordness noted, “which happen to light.”

"Raquel" floor lamp designed and produced by Wendell Castle, Rochester, New York, circa 1969. Dark blue auto body paint on gel-coated fiberglass- reinforced plastic with a lighted spine. Unique piece. This lamp was exhibited in a 1970 Brooklyn Museum Art School exhibition titled " Attitudes"