A Silas Seandel Milestone:

1982 Marks the twentieth creative year for
Silas Seandel, the metal sculptor

Excerpt 1982 - Interior Design

If you could find a metal sculptor who was also willing to buckle down to the nitty-gritty of functional furniture design, and then added that elusive dash of the eager inventor, you might create another Silas Seandel. But the recipe also calls for twenty years' experience working with architects and designers. Thus it is safe to call him unequalled

When Silas Seandel, the self-taught metal sculptor, started out, his studio was the kitchen of a five-story walk-up apartment which he lined with tin cans to avoid incineration. Prior to the 60's there were no metal sculptures of such a three-dimensional and multi-colored nature. His colors were achieved with various metals (bronze, brass, steel and copper) as well as through acid baths and self-invented heat treatments. At first tempted by the gallery route, Seandel was going to have a showing. An architect meanwhile commissioned him from a piece already in a country club. One thing lead to another and the artist never did have that gallery showing, but has been working with the trade ever since.

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