Paul Evans City Scape Table Base
View Similar Items
Paul Evans City Scape Table Base
About the Item
- Creator:Paul Evans (Designer)
- Design:
- Dimensions:Height: 28.5 in (72.39 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)Depth: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1970
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7681237556002
Paul Evans
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.
Find a collection of authentic Paul Evans furniture today on 1stDibs.
- Paul Evans City Scape Table BaseBy Paul EvansLocated in Los Angeles, CAIconic City Scape 8-Sided Table Base Burlwood & Metal Vintage Condition Wear consistent with age & use Height : 28.5 in Width : 22.25 in Depth : 22.2...Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
MaterialsMetal
- Paul Evans Cityscape 6 ChairsBy Paul EvansLocated in Los Angeles, CAPaul Evans for Directional. Set of 6 cityscape dining chairs. Brass with original dark tan leather suede upholstery. 1970's Mid-Century Modern All chairs are on castor...Category
Vintage 1970s American Chairs
MaterialsBrass
$12,750 / set - Sam Maloof Style 'Evans' Rocking ChairBy Sam MaloofLocated in Los Angeles, CAStephen Malm Rocking Chair made with Black Walnut Wood Hand-Crafted & Created by the Artist Featuring Extra Long Rocking Legs Height: 46" Width: 25.25" Depth: ...Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Rocking Chairs
MaterialsWood, Walnut
- Double Ram Head Wood Base Coffee TableLocated in Los Angeles, CACoffee Table with Rams as Base w/ Glass Top Hand Carved Wood Bases 1970'sCategory
Vintage 1970s European Bohemian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsGlass, Wood
- 2-Part Marble Coffee Table Entry Table Side TableLocated in Los Angeles, CA2-part marble accent table Features a square marble base & around marble top Can be used as a coffee table, side table, accent table, or outdoor table Beautiful earth tones of egg...Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsMarble
- P.E. Guerin 1960's Coffee TableBy P. E. GuerinLocated in Los Angeles, CAP.E. Guerin Reclaimed Oriental Wood Panel Embellished & Repurposed with P.E. Guerin Hardware Coffee Table The Company Created these Tables in the ...Category
Vintage 1960s North American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
MaterialsBronze
- Paul Evans Cityscape Dining TableBy Paul EvansLocated in Miami, FLPaul Evans Cityscape dining table in chrome with two leaves.Category
Vintage 1970s Saint Pierre and Miquelon Mid-Century Modern Dining Room T...
MaterialsChrome
- Cityscape Dining Table Base Only by Paul Evans Published ModelBy Paul EvansLocated in Atlanta, GAAn unusual table as part of the cityscape series by Paul Evans for Directional. Constructed with chrome plated cubes and lacquered surface and it is currently shown with a 42 by 84 glass top and functions as a dining table. However, it is in a very versatile size to accommodate glass tops of a wide range of sizes and shapes so it can also functions as a striking center table, or a console table. Table base only...Category
Vintage 1970s American Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsChrome
- Paul Evans City Scape for Directional Hexagon Side or Game TableBy Directional, Paul EvansLocated in Ferndale, MIPaul Evans designed Hexagonal table. Assorted geometric shapes of polished brass and brushed stainless steel applied to hexagonal column. Sparkling je...Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables
MaterialsBrass, Stainless Steel
- Paul Evans Brutalist Stalagmite Bronze and Resin Base Dining Table, 1972, SignedBy Paul EvansLocated in Dallas, TXA spectacular and very rare sculptural Brutalist Paul Evans stalagmite base dining table, model PE102, signed PE72. The bronze and resin composite base is in extraordinary condition ...Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsBronze
- Paul Evans "Cityscape" Dining / Console TableBy Directional, Paul EvansLocated in Denton, TXPaul Evans cityscape for Directional dining / console table with chrome-plated steel and burled wood base. Glass not included Base dimensions: 63 L x 19 D x 28.38 Glass: 71 3/...Category
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsSteel, Chrome
- Cityscape Dining Table by Paul EvansBy Paul EvansLocated in North Hollywood, CAGorgeous vintage burlwood top Paul Evans dining table with brass base. Large table top with no scratches on it. Base has nice detail and t...Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsWood