David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Master woodworker David N. Ebner is an integral contributor to the American Studio furniture movement. Along with like-minded artisans such as George Nakashima, Sam Maloof, Arthur Espenet Carpenter and Wharton Esherick, the New York native advocates for the craft of well-made furniture that is not mass-produced. As Ebner himself has stated, “[I am] creating the antiques of tomorrow.”
Ebner was born in 1945 in Buffalo and attended the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology. There, he studied under celebrated American furniture maker Wendell Castle who taught Ebner “the artistic approach” to woodworking. After graduating, Ebner sought to further his education at the London School of Furniture Making. Then, following a two-year stint in the US Armed Forces, he decided to pursue a career as a woodworker and furniture designer, opening a studio on Long Island, New York, in 1973.
As a devotee of Castle’s teachings of creating furniture as a form of functional art, Ebner eschewed the trend of making furniture out of plastics and other synthetic materials — which gained steam with the likes of venturesome Scandinavian modernist designer Verner Panton during the 1960s and 1970s — embracing instead the American Craftsman style that formed the basis of the American Studio furniture movement.
Working with a range of woods, Ebner has designed sculptural live-edge dining room tables, shapely bamboo stools and side tables characterized by swooping organic curves, and statement-making cabinets in lustrous sapele wood, each elegantly hand-carved. “... Each piece is treated as an art object with concern for my material and honesty to its inherent qualities,” Ebner has said. “For me, one’s creative ability is demonstrated in the diversity of the pieces and what one learns from change.”
Ebner has exhibited extensively throughout his career, including shows at the American Crafts Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton. His works are in permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American American Craftsman David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Maple, Walnut
2010s Polish Mid-Century Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Linen, Bouclé, Beech, Velvet
1970s Swedish Vintage David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Pine
2010s Polish Mid-Century Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Bouclé, Beech, Velvet
Early 2000s Unknown Hollywood Regency David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Rattan
2010s Turkish Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Ash
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Gold Leaf
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Oak
2010s European Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Wood, Fabric
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Plywood
Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Antique David N. Ebner Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Bentwood, Plywood
