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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Lerner Dining Room Table by American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A magnificent table designed by internationally renowned American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner. Made from American walnut and wenge woods. Bookmatched on all sides, with blued...
Walnut, Wenge
Studio Crafted Dining Room Table or Desk
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
This table can be crafted to any size; the size showing is eight feet long. Made of solid walnut wood, showing knots and matched grain, alternate woods available. On request, price ...
Walnut
$36,000 / item
David N Ebner, Curley Ash Live Edge Dining Table, 2016
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A large curley ash live edge dining room table by David Ebner of Bellport. There are two sets of book matched tops available.( never ident...
Maple
Beitel Dining Table by American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
Elegant and beautifully crafted dining room table by American studio Craft artist David N. Ebner. Shown in walnut wood, however other woods are available (price may vary with size an...
David N. Ebner Makore Wood Dining Room or Conference Table,
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A magnificent one of a kind dining room table or conference room table by studio Craft artist David N. Ebner. This table is cut from o...
Wood
Teak and Steel Desk or Table by American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
Industrial steel and teak desk or table by American studio craft artist David N. Ebner. Can be crafted to any specification. Note: All works signed by the artist, David N. Ebner. ...
Steel
$6,800Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 29.5 in W 42 in D 96 in
Contemporary Solid White Oak Dining or Conference Table
By Klein Agency
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dinners are our favorite. We love having them, hosting them, laughing around during them, cleaning up after them. This is what our dining table is and means to us. The solid white oak...
Wood, Oak
Post Modern Live Edge Resin Dining Table - Wood Kitchen Table
Located in İnegöl, TR
HACKBERRY CREAM RESIN DINING TABLE This epoxy table emerges as a unique work of art, inspired by nature's beauty. The epoxy table stands out not only for its design but also its d...
Epoxy Resin, Walnut, Wood
Superb David N. Ebner Studio Craft Tripod Table
By George Nakashima, Dean Santner, Wendell Castle, David Ebner
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Exceptional midcentury styled tripod table with incredible figuring, likely a tropical hardwood, featuring circular dished top raised on a stylized one-piece tripod base, monogrammed...
Hardwood
$1,520Sale Price / item|20% Off
H 29 in W 66 in D 36 in
Vintage Herman Miller Table or Desk with Knoll Walnut Top
By Herman Miller
Located in Pasadena, TX
A vintage dining or conference table or a desk. Beautiful Knoll top made of American Walnut on a Herman Miller aluminum segmented base. We have 8 available.
Aluminum
Studio BBPR for Olivetti 'Spazio' Dining or Work Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Studio BBPR for Olivetti, 'Spazio' dining tables, coated steel, plastic, vinyl, Italy, design 1959/60, production 1960s In 1954, Olivetti, the Italian office equipment manufacturer...
Steel
Lacquered Desk or Dining Table by Jacques Jarrige
By Jacques Jarrige
Located in New York, NY
Luca is an elegant and sculptural piece by Jacques Jarrige that functions equally well as a refined desk or a small dining table. Hand-carved and finished in lustrous lacquer, the pi...
Scrap Wood
$2,470Sale Price|25% Off
H 28.5 in W 60 in D 35.75 in
David Parmelee for Founders Staved Rosewood X-Form Desk or Table, Circa 1970s
By David Parmelee, Founders Furniture Company
Located in Peabody, MA
Mid-century modern writing desk featuring a staved rosewood top over an X-form chrome base, designed by Dave Parmelee for Founders Furniture, circa 1970s.
Chrome
Olavi Hanninen - Dining Table - Elm - Live Edge - 1950
By Mikko Nupponen, Olavi Hanninen
Located in Split, Splitsko-dalmatinska županija
Gorgeous live edge elm dining table with trestle and wood pegs. Lightly refinished with an impressive grain. A unique blend of Rustic and Brutalist Moder...
Elm
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Rattan Desk or Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Mid-century 1950's French bamboo desk or dining table. Wicker, rattan, faux bamboo.
Rattan
$6,800
H 29.75 in W 70.5 in D 41 in
Stunning Emerald Green Marinace Marble Dining or Conference Table or Desk
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Hudson, NY
Breathtaking emerald green marinace marble dining table. This sturdy stone heavy has simple lines with a color and patterned marble which is anything but simple. This table is the su...
Stone, Marble
$3,948Sale Price|40% Off
H 29.14 in W 78.75 in D 39.38 in
Amazing Italian Desk or Dining Table by Guglielmo Ulrich
By Guglielmo Ulrich
Located in Munich, DE
Wonderful organic shaped walnut base and silvered glass top. I was not able to get a good picture of the top.
Walnut
Live Edge Dining Table Made from Black Walnut
By Petersen Antiques
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This live edge table is made from two 'sister-slabs' of book-matched black walnut. The top is made from the two center cuts of a massive Pennsylvania black walnut tree...
Walnut
Dining Room/Desk by American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner.
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A magnificent table or desk designed by internationally renowned American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner. Made from American Walnut and Wenge woods. Book matched on all sides,wit...
Sold
H 30 in W 84 in D 40 in
Teak & Steel Dining Table/Desk by American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
Industrial Steel and Teak dining room table (or desk) by American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner. Can be crafted to your specifications. Note: All works signed by the artist, ...
Teak
A Spectacular Dining Table by American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A dining room or center table from American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner. Reverse diamond pattern top. Crafted in Ovangkol (Mozambique) wood, seats 4 to 6. Other wood choices ...
A Spectacular Dining Table by American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
A dining room or center table from American Studio Craft Artist, David N. Ebner. Reverse diamond pattern top. Crafted in Ovangkol (Mozambique) wood; seats 4 to 6. Other wood choices ...