Paul Mccobb Irwin Collection

Mccobb Travertine

Paul Mccobb Brass Coffee Table

Bi Fold Door Cabinet

Irwin Sideboard

Paul Mccobb For Calvin Furniture

Modern Gentlemans Chest

Materials

Brass

$3,550

Paul McCobb Coffee Table Clean Lined Mid Century Modern Design for Calvin

By Paul McCobb

Located in Atlanta, GA

Clean Lined Modern Coffee Table, designed by Paul McCobb, part of his Irwin Collection for Calvin, American, circa 1950s.

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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Materials

Brass

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H 33.5 in W 71.5 in D 18.75 in

Paul McCobb Irwin Collection Walnut Dresser On Brass Base

Located in Tarrytown, NY

1950s Paul McCobb walnut dresser on brass base for the Irwin Collection at Calvin Group.

Category

Vintage 1950s Cabinets

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb “Irwin Collection” X-Base Brass Stools for Calvin Group

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H 16 in W 20 in D 20 in

Paul McCobb “Irwin Collection” X-Base Brass Stools for Calvin Group

By Calvin Furniture, Paul McCobb

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Designer: Paul McCobb Manufacturer: Calvin Group “Irwin Collection” Period/Style: Mid-Century Modern Country: United States Date: 1950s.

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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Stools

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb Irwin Collection Black Lacquer and Brass Dining Table, Refinished

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H 29 in W 50 in D 50 in

Paul McCobb Irwin Collection Black Lacquer and Brass Dining Table, Refinished

By Paul McCobb, Directional

Located in South Bend, IN

An exceptional Mid-Century Modern round dining table, game table, or center table By Paul McCobb for Directional and produced by Calvin Furniture, "Irwin Collection" USA, 1950s Bl...

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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

$12,500

H 96 in W 108 in D 20 in

Vladimir Kagan Burl Wood Wall Unit Cabinet Sideboard

By Milo Baughman, Vladimir Kagan

Located in Rockaway, NJ

Very nice Mid-Century Modern burl wood liquor cabinet bar, display cabinet or sideboard by V. Kagan. Measures: 8' Tall.

Materials

Walnut

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Paul Mccobb Irwin Collection For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the paul mccobb irwin collection you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, metal and brass, every paul mccobb irwin collection was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer paul mccobb irwin collection, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A paul mccobb irwin collection made by Mid-Century Modern designers — as well as those associated with Scandinavian Modern — is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made paul mccobb irwin collection over the years, but those crafted by Paul McCobb, Calvin and Directional are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Paul Mccobb Irwin Collection?

A paul mccobb irwin collection can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $4,900, while the lowest priced sells for $995 and the highest can go for as much as $18,000.

Paul McCobb for sale on 1stDibs

The single aesthetic attribute of vintage Paul McCobb furniture is that the designer completely forsook ornament — his pieces have no flourishes. And yet, because they are honest — McCobb’s chairs, desks and dining tables are made of solid wood, usually maple or birch, often paired with frames and legs of wrought iron; the cabinets are traditionally scaled; the seating pieces have historic antecedents such as the Windsor chair — his mid-century modern work has warmth and presence.

You could call the Massachusetts-born McCobb a man of parts. As a furniture designer, his work combined the attributes of many of his now better-known peers.

Like the work of Bauhaus designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, McCobb's furniture had purity of form and line. Like the designs of Florence Knoll and George Nelson and his associates, McCobb’s work was efficient and purposeful. And even like George Nakashima, he was adept at interpreting traditional forms, in particular those of chairs, for the 20th century.

More than any other designer besides Russel Wright, with his ubiquitous ceramic tableware, McCobb was arguably responsible for the introduction of modern design into middle-class American households — if for no other reason than that he designed the 1952 set for the original Today show.

McCobb, a repeat recipient of the Good Design Award from the Museum of Modern Art, also designed cohesive lines of furnishings, such as his best-known Planner Group, that gave homes an instant “look.” He designed for several companies, most notably Directional, which was home to McCobb’s Origami chair.

In 1949, in partnership with New York furniture salesman B.G. Mesberg, McCobb set up the Directional Furniture Company, a brand known to vintage mid-century modern furniture collectors everywhere. Directional opened its doors after McCobb created the high-end Directional Modern line of sofas distributed by the New York-based Modernage Company. Directional also produced designs by other legends such as Paul Evans and Vladimir Kagan.

As you can see from the offerings on 1stDibs, McCobb designs are the pin-striped suit, or the little black dress, of a decor: an essential.

Find vintage Paul McCobb credenzas, bookcases, nightstands and other furniture on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.