Paul Evans Dining Room Sets
American, 1931-1987
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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Creator: Paul Evans
Paul Evans Cityscape Dining Suite, Eight Chairs with Table
By Directional, Paul Evans
Located in Chicago, IL
This listing is for a Dining Suite in desirable chrome cityscape and white leather. Includes a dining table (not pictured at this moment) with two armchairs and six side chairs. Dini...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Dining Room Sets
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Metal
Curvilinear Dining Table with extension Paul Evans for Directional
By Paul Evans
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fantastic Curvilinear dining table by Paul Evans for Directional circa 1970s. Model PE-509 with Olive Burl wood patchwork contrasting the shades of brass. Heavy and substantial, th...
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1970s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Dining Room Sets
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Welded Polychromed and Patinated Steel "Skyline Dining" Table by Paul Evans
By Paul Evans
Located in Montreal, QC
Welded polychromed and patinated steel "skyline dining" table by Paul Evans. Welded signature and date to base ‘Paul Evans 73’. Dimensions of the base: H:29 W:40 D:18 in. USA c.1973 ...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Dining Room Sets
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Steel
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Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Paul Evans Patchwork Steel Coffee Table for Directional, Signed & Dated 1978
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Paul Evans, "Cityscape" Dining Table, Mirror, Wood, Directional, USA, c. 1970
By Paul Evans, Directional
Located in High Point, NC
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Paul Evans Sculpted Bronze Skyline Coffee Table
By Paul Evans
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Paul Evans sculpted bronze brutalist skyline coffee table, signed PE71
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By Paul Evans
Located in Norwich, GB
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Paul Evans Brutalist Stalagmite Bronze Dining Table and 6 Sculpted Chairs
By Paul Evans
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Very rare Paul Evans stalagmite dining room table and 6 matching sculpted armless chairs coming from the estate of the original owner. They purchased the set from Directional Furniture in 1975 as seen on the delivery receipt. This brutalist stalagmite base dining table is model PE102 and it is signed PE75 for Paul Evans 1975. To create the stalagmite design, he used epoxy with applied bronze over a steel frame. The bronze and resin composite base is in good condition and has its deep dark bronze patina. The table comes a rectangular glass top measuring 47 1/2" deep x 95 3/4" wide. The base without the top is approximately 64 1/2" by 21 1/2".
The sculpted structural armless chairs are Paul Evans model PE106. They measure 33" tall x 21" wide x 19.5" deep. The seat height is 17.25". The have been reupholstered in a red fabric which is in good condition.
Paul Evans Biography from Wikipedia:
Paul Evans was born in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He studied at several institutions, including the Philadelphia Textile Institute (1950), Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, in Rochester, New York (1950), and Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1952).
Settling in New Hope, Evans set up a collaboration with Powell. Without much money, the partners would get their wood from the reject pile of their neighbor, the woodworker and furniture designer George Nakashima.[1]
In the 1950s, Evans began making copper chests and followed with sculpted steel-front cabinets. Evans had a two-man show in 1961 at America House, an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York (now the Museum of Arts & Design). In 1964, Evans became a featured designer for manufacturer Directional Furniture. With Directional Furniture, Evans introduced several furniture lines, such as Argente series, Sculpted Bronze series, Sculptured and Painted Steel, Patchwork Copper, Pewter and Brass, and the popular Cityscape series. According to the New York Times, Evans "understood fashion, embraced youth culture and built custom pieces for celebrities like the ventriloquist Shari Lewis and the singer Roy Orbison...
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Paul Evans Studio for Directional Cityscape Dining Table, 1975
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Paul Evans Cityscape Dining Table
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Located in Atlanta, GA
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Signed Paul Evans Brutalist Dining Table Sculpted of Bronze, circa 1974
By Directional, Paul Evans
Located in Saint Louis, MO
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Paul Evans Dining Set in Sculpted Bronze, 1969
By Paul Evans
Located in Dallas, TX
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Paul Evans Complete Sculpted Bronze Dining Room Setting
By Paul Evans
Located in Miami, FL
Complete sculpted bronze series dining room set by Paul Evans
This extremely rare set consists of:
One iconic stalagmite shape dining table with glass plate top, model PE 102. Signed and dated PE73
One set of eight dining room chairs, two armchairs and six side chairs, model PE105 and 106.
Newly upholstered with silk chenille.
One sideboard with exceptional abstract forms, solid volume and powerful shapes. Four doors concealing
storage with shelves, three inset slate tops. Signed and dated PE72.
Truly works of art by the greatest designer and sculptor of the American Studio Furniture movement, all in
impeccable collector condition
References and literature available
Located in our store in Miami ready for shipping.
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Paul Evans Cityscape Dining Table
By Paul Evans
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Paul Evans Cityscape Dining Chairs
By Paul Evans
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Paul Evans Burl Wood and Stainless Steel Panel Cityscape Dining Set
By Paul Evans
Located in Ferndale, MI
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Paul Evans dining room sets for sale on 1stDibs.
Paul Evans dining room sets are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Paul Evans dining room sets, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original dining room sets by Paul Evans were created in the mid-century modern style in united states during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider dining room sets by Drexel, McGuire Furniture Company, and Herman Miller. Prices for Paul Evans dining room sets can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $14,500 and can go as high as $130,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $40,000.