Dakota Jackson Furniture

Pair of Memphis-style "Vik-Ter" black side chairs by Dakota Jackson. The chairs feature a curved circular backrest on a black metal rod frame, with a black wood square seat. The back...

We are very pleased to offer a set of three bar counter stools by renowned American furniture designer Dakota Jackson, circa the 1990s. He began his career in the 1960s and gained re...

A Dakota Jackson Ke-Zu accent lounge chair and ottoman. This gorgeous 1980s lounge set features a plush chair and matching ottoman. Each of these piece are upholstered in a beautiful...

The "Ke-Zu" armchair was designed by Dakota Jackson from his classic Ke-Zu Collection. It is characterized by a form-fitted design that is luxuriously sculpted to the body. Kiln-drie...

Large 7' foot tall "Ocean" espresso oak bookcase/display cabinet by Dakota Jackson. The cabinet features Faceted geometric lines with doors in grain oak frames with glass panels and ...

Memphis-style "Vik-Ter" red and black Counter Stool by Dakota Jackson. The stool comes with a red curved circular backrest on black metal rod fram...

The Monaco Collection is one of regal opulence, named after the European principality of Monaco. Dakota Jackson (born August 24, 1949) is an American furniture designer known for hi...

Set of 6 Dakota Jackson designed natural Cordovan maple "Library" Chairs. The Library Chair is the quintessential, well-designed, highly-styled chair for both institutional and resid...

Memphis-style "Vik-Ter" orange and black bar stool by Dakota Jackson. The stool comes with a orange curved circular backrest on black metal rod frames, with a black wood square seat....

Dakota Jackson's "Aldabhra" Side Chair with sculptural beauty is found at the intersection of the back and the leg, as the wood contours in two directions simultaneously. The solid w...

Set of 3 Memphis-style "Vik-Ter" black leather side chairs by Dakota Jackson. The chairs feature a curved leather circular backrest on a black metal rod frame, with a black square le...

Dakota Jackson designed "Eland" round top mahogany side table with sculpted legs. The Eland Collection evokes both the grace of the African Eland antel...

Dakota Jackson designed "Oh!" velvet side chair. The chair features a Pillow back with quilted stitching to the back and seat with cherry arms and legs...

Dakota Jackson's "Aldabhra" Side Chair with sculptural beauty is found at the intersection of the back and the leg, as the wood contours in two directions simultaneously. The solid w...

Dakota Jackson designed Pull Up side Chair with sculptural beauty is found at the intersection of the back and the leg, as the wood contours in two dir...

Dakota Jackson "Marina Martini" cherry wood Lounge Chair with sculpted legs and a curved backrest connected to the base with a chromed steel steam with a leather seat. The Marina Collection is inspired by a series of luxury suites that Dakota Jackson designed...

The Ke-Zu chair features in Dakota Jackson's classic Ke-Zu Collection. It is characterized by a form-fitted design that is luxuriously sculpted to the body with leather seating. Ther...

Dakota Jackson "ocean" Dining table with hand-carved legs in solid Honduran mahogany support Honduran mahogany top with stepped edge detail. Measurements: Height: 30" X Width: 90" X...

Dakota Jackson "Cadette II" sculpted wood Armchair finished black lacquer. The chair is Fully upholstered seat and back in leather with cut-out details. The Cadette Seating Collectio...

Dakota Jackson designed "Oh!" leather set including 1 side chair and 1 armchair. The chairs feature a Pillow back with quilted stitching to the back an...

Dakota Jackson "Ocean" round coffee table, with hand-carved legs in solid Honduran mahogany supporting a Honduran mahogany top with stepped edge detail. Measurements: Height: 15" X ...

Dakota Jackson "ocean" coffee table with hand-carved legs in solid Honduran mahogany support Honduran mahogany top with stepped edge detail. Measurements: Height:18.5 " X Width: 34"...

Transitional "Jio" side chair upholstered in beige velvet by Dakota Jackson. The chair features a plush back with quilted stitching to the back and a seat with cherry legs in a dark ...

The Iko Side chair by Dakota Jackson features highly sculpted chairs, molded to the body. There are no straight lines on the upholstery which is sewn as a single piece and then stret...

Vintage royalty: Custom purple leather upholstered Dakota Jackson Ocean dining set in solid mahogany. Includes two arm chairs and four side chairs. Inspired by bold forms seen in African Ashanti prayer stools with influence of Czech Cubism apparent in the use of broad planes and fractured structures. A few minor scratches but overall kept in great condition. See photos for details. Please contact to facilitate shipping and get a quote...

Dakota Jackson designed barstool part of the "Cadette" Collection inspired by a cadet’s uniform. The stool features a Kiln-dried hardwood frame, glued,...

Dakota Jackson designed "Scatter" Chrome Swivel Desk Chair Padded upholstered armchair on a shiny steel chrome five-star swivel base with castors. Blac...

Dakota Jackson Self Winding Mechanical Clock Round Bras & Glass Coffee Table.

This stunning Dakota Jackson credenza or mid-century modern buffet made of rosewood exemplifies the best of American modern design with hints of Danish style. Crafted in Italy by sk...

A 21st Century modern Dakota Jackson Heraldic Collection round dining table in great vintage condition. The eye-catching, geometric patterns identifying the natural beauty of santos...

A Pair Dakota Jackson Crimped Velvet lacquered Maple Armchairs. Measures 24.75" in width, 26" in depth and stands 35" in height. Seat height is 18.5". Arm height is 26". Seat interi...

Set of Four Dakota Jackson Crimped Velvet lacquered Maple side Chairs. Measures 22" in width, 26" in depth and stands 35" in height. Seat height is 18.5". Very good vintage conditi...

Vintage Dakota Jackson post modern Art Deco style executive partners desk featuring mahogany with leather insert and stainless steel frame. A V-Shape pattern veneer top with Black Leather inset. 2 pedestal cabinets below: each with 2 standard drawers and 1 file drawer, front and back. Polished Stainless Steel drawer pulls, post, floor plates, and arced trestle supporting desktop. DJ Chelsea Black Leather, Polished Polyresin finish. Dakota Jackson (born August 24, 1949) is an American furniture designer known for his eponymous furniture brand, Dakota Jackson, Inc.,[1] his early avant-garde works involving moving parts or hidden compartments,[2][3] and his collaborations with the Steinway & Sons piano company.[1] Jackson helped establish the art furniture movement in 1970s SoHo,[4][5] later becoming a celebrity designer in the 1980s.[6][7][8] His background in the world of stage magic helped him get his first commissions and is often cited as the source of his point-of-view.[6][9] Early life Dakota Jackson was born on August 24, 1949, and grew up in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. Stage Magic Jackson's father, Jack Malon, was a professional magician.[10] Mr. Malon learned the trade from his own father, who studied stage magic in early 20th century Poland.[1] Jackson began studying magic at a young age and sometimes performed with his father.[11] Jackson's name, in fact, grew out of a road trip to Fargo, North Dakota.[11] Throughout his adolescence and into his early 20s, Jackson immersed himself in the world of magic.[2] In 1963, Jackson began to perform in talent shows at his junior high school, William Cowper JHS 73 (which is known today as The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School),[12] and at children's birthday parties.[13] Jackson also began to build his own props, including large boxes for sawing a woman in half and small boxes from which doves would emerge in full flight.[11] Jackson acknowledges the importance of these early experiences with magic to his later career as a furniture designer: "The demands of performance taught me how to discipline myself to achieve aesthetic ends."[1][2][14] After Jackson graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1967, he continued performing as a magician, working in art galleries, night clubs, touring in the Catskills, and giving private performances at society events.[2][13][15] When he was 17, Jackson had studied with magician Jack London to learn the dangerous bullet catch trick.[16] "What appealed to me was the notion of doing things that appeared miraculous" Jackson once recalled.[6] "I was interested in spiritualism. I was interested in things like bullet catching, things that really challenged individual sensibilities, that were frightening, on the edge."[2] He didn't find the opportunity to perform the trick publicly until a decade later at Jackson's final professional performance as a magician.[1] It was documented in Andy Warhol's Interview (magazine), in a story titled "Dakota Jackson bites the bullet."[1][16] Jackson admits that he sometimes tires of references to his magician background, although he acknowledges it as an important part of his history.[2] The Downtown Arts Scene In the late 1960s, Jackson moved into a loft on 28th Street in Chelsea.[1][17] Jackson became part of the Downtown scene, a community of "artists, dancers, performers, and musicians" who moved to the neighborhood for the cheap rent and social life.[1][8][17][18] In October 1970, Jackson performed with the Japanese group Tokyo Kid Brothers at New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (also known as Café La MaMa) in a rock musical production called "Coney Island Play" ("Konī airando purē).[19] The show explored themes of cross-cultural communication and understanding[19] and was a follow up to the group's debut performance of "The Golden Bat" at La MaMa earlier that summer.[20][21][22] Jackson played the part of a "clever conjurer."[19] Over the next few years, Jackson became interested in minimalist dance and performed in the dance companies of Laura Dean and Trisha Brown.[2][15][23] Jackson credits his exposure to minimalism and minimalist dance in particular as having had a strong influence on his approach to design; in 1989, Jackson told the Los Angeles Times: For me the essential fineness of a design is in the idea, not the object itself ... In minimalism, the object is pared down to its basic meaning by stripping away all the excrescence ... —those elements that do not contribute to the pure idea.[24] Design career In the early 1970s, as he experimented with performance and dance, Jackson began branching out as a special effects consultant to other magicians, film producers, and musicians[2][23] such as Donna Summer.[6][9] The loft also gave Jackson an opportunity to apply his creativity and building skills: "These were times when lofts were not ... luxury condominiums. These were tough, tough raw spaces ... and we artists, bohemians, creative people, we created our environment. So I had to build".[17][25] Recognizing his skills as a builder, Jackson decided to shift away from performance and become a full-time maker.[1][15][17] He began making a variety of objects, including furnishings for other artists and magic boxes with hidden compartments for art collectors and galleries.[17][24] Jackson's social connections helped spread word about his work[15] and this led to his first commissions.[1] Early Commissions Desk for John Lennon by Dakota Jackson In 1974, Jackson's career as a designer began when Yoko Ono asked him to build a desk with hidden compartments for husband John Lennon.[26] "She wanted to make a piece of furniture that would be a mystical object; that would be like a Chinese puzzle," Jackson recalled in a 1986 interview published in the Chicago Tribune.[6] The result was a small cubed-shaped writing table with rounded corners reminiscent of Art Deco era style.[15] Touching secret pressure points opened the desk's compartments.[23] This commission helped build Jackson's reputation and allowed him to merge his experience as a magician and performer with his developing interest in furniture.[27] In 1978, a bed designed for fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg garnered Jackson even more notoriety.[8][10][28] [29] Called "The Eclipse", the bed was described in The New Yorker as "large, astounding, sumptuous, with sunbursts of cherry wood and quilted ivory satin at head and foot."[10] A lighting system positioned behind the headboard switched on automatically at sunset and spread out rays of light "like an aurora borealis,"[2][17] which grew brighter and brighter until turning off at 2 am.[23][30] Commissions like these continued to come in[8] and Jackson soon became known as a designer to the rich and famous.[30] Some of his other clients from this period included songwriter Peter Allen, Saturday Night Live creator and producer Lorne Michaels, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, and soap opera actress Christine Jones.[8] The American Art Furniture Movement and the Industrial Style In the late 1970s, Jackson was among a small group of artists and artisans producing and exhibiting hand-made furniture in New York.[5][31] Jackson and his peers were part of the "American Art Furniture Movement," a group sometimes called the "Art et Industrie Movement,"[32] named after the leading art furniture gallery of the era,[32] Art et Industrie, founded by Rick Kaufmann in 1976.[33] In a 1984 Town & Country article titled "Art You Can Sit On," Kaufmann said he created the gallery to "serve as a locus to the public for artists and designers creating new decorative arts."[31] The works on display were "radical objects" that drew from a number of fine art traditions, including "Pop, Surrealism, Pointillism and Dada [which were] "thrown together with the severe lines of the Bauhaus and the Russian avant-garde, mixed with Mondrian's color and filtered through a video sensibility—all to create a new statement."[31] The article described Jackson as a "ten-year veteran of the genre" and pointed to the "clean forms and quiet colors" of his furniture.[4] Jackson showed a variety of industrial-looking lacquer, metal, and glass works at Art et Industrie, including his Standing Bar (also known as the Modern Bar),[33] a lacquered cabinet that Jackson designed in 1978 for his wife (then-girlfriend) RoseLee Goldberg.[13] Other works from this period include the T-Bird Desk, Self-Winding Cocktail Table, and the Saturn Stool...

Vintage Dakota Jackson Postmodern wrought iron barstools, set of 3 Offered for sale is a set of 3 vintage Dakota Jackson Postmodern counter h...

Dramatic pair of hardwood dining armchairs designed by Dakota Jackson known as PFM Royale chairs. The pair feature whimsical bowed arms conjoined to a generous seating area with cogn...

Incredible glass and brass mechanical coffee table circa 1970's. The table features three thick glass elements, including a round top ( 44 in. ...

Introducing the Vintage Swivel Arm Chair by Dakota Jackson - a timeless piece of furniture that exudes elegance and sophistication. Crafted wi...

Mid-Century Modern Single Dakota Jackson PFM Upholstered dining / arm chair Single "PFM" dining arm or side chair. The PFM was the first chair to become a standard in the Dakota Jackson Line, drawing inspiration from 1920s Classicism and the Paris Flea Market...

Absolutely gorgeous set of six "Cadette" dining chairs by renowned designer and furniture maker Dakota Jackson, circa 2000s. The dining chairs have a kiln-dried hardwood frame that h...

Ready to ship, vintage custom solid white oak Dakota Jackson Ocean armchair(s) upholstered in a beige taupe leather seat. Inspired by bold forms seen in African Ashanti prayer stools...

Ready to ship, vintage custom solid white oak Dakota Jackson Ocean side chair(s) upholstered in a beige taupe leather seat. Inspired by bold forms seen in African Ashanti prayer stools...

Remarkable set of ten leather dining chairs designed by Dakota Jackson. The bespoke chairs feature a cherry hardwood frame with an ebonized la...

This incredible exotic wood and leather dining set, which would also make an amazing conference table and chair set, by luxury design su...

Absolutely gorgeous set of six "Cadette" dining chairs (two arm chairs) by renowned designer and furniture maker Dakota Jackson, circa 2000s. The dining chairs have a kiln-dried hard...

Pair of Dakota Jackson lounge chairs. Comes with one ottoman. Chairs has a wood base. Newly upholstered.

Library chairs designed and made by Dakota Jackson. A classic, straightforward design in natural Cordovan maple.

Part of a multi piece collection from Dakota Jackson come this set of three ottoman cubes. Can be used as diminutive seating or foot rests. Hei...

Puff Armchair upholstered in beige leather by Dakota Jackson. The chair features a Pillow back with quilted stitching to the back and seat with cherry arms and legs in a dark brown s...

The Set of 10 Ocean Chairs by Dakota Jackson of New York is a stunning embodiment of contemporary luxury and refined craftsmanship. Consisting of two armch...

A 21st Century modern Dakota Jackson Heraldic Collection Buffet in great condition. Measures 77" in width, 22" in depth and stands 32" tall. Original price new $19995 The matching ...

A gorgeous pair of Modern "PFM" club chairs or dining armchairs. The PFM was the first chair to become a standard in the Dakota Jackson Line, drawing inspiration from 1920s Classicism and the Paris Flea Market...