Paul Evans Studio For Directional
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Dining Room Tables
Bronze
Vintage 1960s American Brutalist Dry Bars
Brass, Copper, Pewter
Vintage 1960s American Brutalist End Tables
Copper, Pewter, Bronze
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Slate, Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Benches
Bronze
Vintage 1960s American Brutalist Side Tables
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Modern Credenzas
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Brass, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Slate, Brass, Copper, Pewter
Vintage 1950s North American Mid-Century Modern More Lighting
Wood, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Burl
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Modern Dry Bars
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Modern Benches
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Brutalist Cabinets
Slate, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Credenzas
Bronze
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Pewter, Steel
Mid-20th Century American Credenzas
Steel
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Brass
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Side Tables
Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Resin, Wood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Resin, Wood
Vintage 1960s American Center Tables
Slate, Copper, Brass, Pewter
Vintage 1960s American Chairs
Copper, Bronze, Pewter, Steel
Vintage 1960s American Dining Room Tables
Steel, Brass
Vintage 1960s American Dining Room Tables
Steel
Vintage 1970s American Sofas
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets
Vintage 1970s American Cabinets
Copper, Bronze, Pewter
Vintage 1960s American Dining Room Tables
Vintage 1970s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
Vintage 1970s American Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Vintage 1970s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze
Vintage 1970s American Dining Room Tables
Bronze
Vintage 1970s Dry Bars
Vintage 1970s American Benches
Upholstery
Vintage 1970s American Dining Room Tables
Chrome, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Vintage 1970s American Shelves
Steel
Vintage 1970s American Tables
Steel
20th Century American Beds and Bed Frames
Chrome, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
20th Century American Modern End Tables
Slate, Metal
Vintage 1970s American Console Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Cabinets
Slate
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Paul Evans Studio For Directional 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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