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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David N. Ebner, Studio Craft Artist, Wine Table in Pigmented Walnut
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
Simple elegance 'Wine Table' in pigmented walnut by Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner. Also available in other woods. Please see the newly published book "David Ebner: Studio Fur...
Walnut
American Studio Craft Artist David N. Ebner's Free Edge End Table
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
American studio craft artist David N. Ebner's handcrafted free edge end table/side table, crafted in elm burl, with hand-cut dovetails and bronzing powder lacquered base. Crafted to ...
Walnut
Vintage Round Accent Table with Marble Top and Giltwood Base
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marble side or occasional table features a round marble top and a hand-carved wooden base painted gold.
Marble
Superb David N. Ebner Studio Craft Tripod Table
By Wendell Castle, Dean Santner, George Nakashima, 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
Maison Jansen Occasional Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in East Hampton, NY
Elegant marble-top table with a steel and brass base in the French Regency style.
Marble, Brass, Steel
$736Sale Price|20% Off
H 19.89 in Dm 13.78 in
Vintage Mahogany Carved Legs Pie Crust Edge Tripod Lamp Side End Wine Table
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this lovely vintage light Mahogany Pie crust edge lamp or side table. It has a lovely flamed mahogany top A good-looking well-made tripod table in goo...
Mahogany
Pair of Brass Faux Bamboo Tables Attributed to Bagues
By Maison Baguès
Located in New York, NY
Solid brass bases support plate glass tops. Tops show some wear, including one edge chip, as shown (.75" thick tops). Brass bases are in original gilt finish. Great quality construc...
Brass
$5,975
H 28 in Dm 28 in
Art Deco Gueridon Table in Book-Matched Walnut, Lacquered Legs & Nickel Sabots
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Art Deco Gueridon table was realized in France circa 1935. It features a four-pointed base in bookmatched walnut capped on the ends with brushed nickel sabots. Four streamlined supports ascend upwards in black lacquer where they connect with the circular top in walnut (showcasing the dramatic natural grain bookmatched in a starburst patter). With its iconically Art Deco materials...
Nickel
Marcel Breuer Black Laccio End Table Knoll Studio Bauhaus
By Knoll, Marcel Breuer
Located in New York, NY
An authentic "Laccio" side or end table signed by Marcel Breuer for Knoll Studio, in the German Bauhaus style, circa 20th century. Table has a black satin laminate top and tubular ch...
Chrome
Coffee Table or Stool by Maarten Stuer, 2024.
By Maarten Stuer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Stoneware stool or coffee table by Marteen Stuer. Artist signature under the base. 2024. H : 17.1’ x 15.7’ inches. - Born in 1965 in Japan, lives and works in the Gers, France. Ma...
Ceramic
Gilt Metal Rope Form Table With Tassel Ornamentation
Located in Chicago, IL
This small round table, or gueridon, has a frame made of gilt iron braided to look like rope.
Iron
$3,000Sale Price|32% Off
H 17 in W 24 in D 24 in
Arden Riddle Studio Craft End Table Black Walnut Italian Travertine Top 1999
By Arden Riddle
Located in Camden, ME
This classic side table was crafted from black walnut at the studio of Arden Riddle in 1999. The design of this base and the use of a slightly off white travertine marble top is rem...
Travertine
Swedish Scalloped Edge Parquetry Side or End Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Swedish Scalloped Edge Parquetry Side or End Table
Elm
$603Sale Price|20% Off
H 20.67 in Dm 13.39 in
Stunning Hardwood Pie Crust Edge Green Leather Tripod Side End Lamp Wine Table
By Bevan Funnell Ltd.
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice vintage Bevan Funnell mahogany & green leather topped tripod table A good looking and wel...
Leather, Hardwood
Irish William IV Pollard Oak Metamorphic Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This bold and beautiful table showcases all the best that classical English and Irish furniture has to offer. The large gadrooned edge ,robust carving on the pedestal and sensitive b...
Oak
American Single Drawer Rustic End Table, 20th Century
Located in Southampton, NY
American single drawer rustic end table, 20th century. Charming simple rustic table with clean lines, tapered legs, and a round brass knob. Some separation to the top. Knicks and we...
Brass
Glass End Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Glass end table located in NY.
Iron, Brass
Vintage David N. Ebner Red Oak Side Table
By David N. Ebner
Located in Bellport, NY
An early David N. Ebner red oak side or occasional table. Solid red oak with high definition, also available in other woods. Note: All works signed by the artist, David N Ebner. Pl...
Wood, Oak