Religious Benches of Wood Sculptor Francis Cape at Manhattan's Murray Guy Gallery

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Penelope Green

The wood sculptor Francis Cape, top, at the Murray Guy Gallery on
West 17th Street, where he is showing his latest work, “Utopian Benches.”

NEW YORK---Francis Cape is a British-born master woodworker and sculptor, who for the past few years has been building and exhibiting benches inspired by examples from 19th-century intentional communities, both religious and secular. In his book, “We Sit Together: Utopian Benches From the Shakers to the Separatists of Zoar,” out this month from Princeton Architectural Press ($24.95), Mr. Cape writes enticingly of this vestigial Gothic point, “a small physical sign of the larger unseen life.” His book is an engaging tour of craft, technology and community. [link]

Murray Guy Gallery: "FRANCES CAPE: Utopian Benches" in Manhattan through (Ends Aug. 2) 453 West 17th Street New York, NY, 212-463-7372, murrayguy.com