Paul Evans Cityscape
Vintage 1970s American Modern Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Pedestals
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Wall Mirrors
Glass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Dining Room Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Modern Pedestals
Chrome, Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Stools
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Chrome
Late 20th Century American Modern Pedestals
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Metal, Brass, Chrome
20th Century American Floor Lamps
Brass
Late 20th Century American Modern Side Tables
Brass, Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Late 20th Century North American Modern Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Aesthetic Movement Cabinets
Chrome, Steel
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Wall Mirrors
Chrome
Vintage 1970s North American Cabinets
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Floor Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Floor Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Late 20th Century American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Late 20th Century American Brutalist Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Vintage 1970s North American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of D...
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Beds and Bed Frames
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Modern Armchairs
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Shelves
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Boxes
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Desks and Writing Tables
Chrome, Brass, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Vintage 1970s American Credenzas
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Cut Steel, Stainless Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1970s Pedestals and Columns
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Buffets
Brass, Chrome
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Metal
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Games
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Shelves
Brass, Chrome, Stainless Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mid-20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Vintage 1970s American Settees
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Shelves
Vintage 1970s Floor Lamps
Vintage 1970s American Floor Lamps
Brass, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
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Paul Evans Cityscape For Sale on 1stDibs
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Paul Evans for sale on 1stDibs
A designer and sculptor, Paul Evans was a wild card of late 20th century modernism. A leading light of the American Studio Furniture movement, Evans’s sideboards, credenzas, coffee tables and other work manifests a singular aesthetic sense, as well as a seemingly contradictory appreciation for both folk art forms and for new materials and technologies.
Evans’s primary material was metal, not wood, which was favored by his fellow studio designers, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, neighbors George Nakashima and Phillip Lloyd Powell. He trained in metallurgy and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the famed crucible of modern design and art in suburban Detroit. For a time early in his career, Evans also worked at Sturbridge Village, a historical “living museum” in Massachusetts, where he gave demonstrations as a costumed silversmith.
Evans’s earliest work unites these influences. The pieces that made his reputation are known as “sculpted-front” cabinets: wood cases faced with box-like high-relief patinated steel mounts laid out in a grid pattern. Each mount contains a metal emblem, or glyph, and the effect is that of a brawny quilt.
Evans’s later work falls into three distinct style groups. His sculpted-bronze pieces, begun in the mid-1960s, show Evans at his most expressive. He employed a technique in which resin is hand-shaped, and later sprayed with a metal coating, allowing for artistic nuance in the making of chairs, tables and case pieces. Later in the decade and into the 1970s, Evans produced his Argente series for celebrated manufacturer Directional (a brand known to vintage mid-century modern furniture collectors everywhere): consoles and other furniture forms that feature aluminum and pigment-infused metal surfaces welded into abstract organic forms and patterns.
Last, Evans's Cityscape design series — a milestone in the history of brutalist design — meshed perfectly with the sleek, “high tech” sensibility of the later ’70s. Evans constructed boxy forms and faced them with irregular mosaic patterns that mixed rectangular plaques of chromed steel, bronze or burlwood veneer. These, like all of Paul Evans’s designs, are both useful and eye-catching. But their appeal has another, more visceral quality: these pieces have clearly been touched by an artist’s hand.
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