Inspired by pure geometrical forms — circles, rectangles, squares, cylinders and spheres — John Eric Byers’s furniture is deceptively simple. A closer inspection, however, shows that behind each coffee table, bench and chair there is great care and meticulous attention to detail. It is little wonder why the woodworker is considered to be among the foremost figures of the modern American Studio movement.
Born in Rochester, New York, in 1959, Byers trained in the workshop of Wendell Castle, “the father of the art furniture movement.” The renowned American sculptor greatly influenced Byers, and the New York native found inspiration in the work of other artist-designers while in Castle’s workshop such as Donald Judd and British ceramicist Hans Coper.
Following his studies under Castle, Byers established a studio and workshop in Newfield, New York. There, he uses a variety of specialized techniques in the design of his furniture, including wood milling, lamination, hand-shaping, hand-tooling and finishing, often with casein milk paint, which is believed to have been used in ancient Egypt.
Byers’s side tables, stools, sideboards, credenzas and other pieces are sculpted by hand in his preferred material — hard, blackened maple. Each design demonstrates his keen focus on detailed surface texture and structure.
Byers’s works have not gone unnoticed over the course of his decades-long career. He has won multiple awards, such as the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and the New York Foundation of the Arts Award. He has been included in the Smithsonian’s Oral Archives of American Arts as well.
Byers’s pieces feature in permanent collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Mint Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.
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$14,049 / item
ORO - OT1 Side Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
ORO - OT1 side table by John Eric Byers ORO Collection Dimensions: W38 x D38 x H51cm Materials: Maple Hardwood + Gold Metallic Lacquer Hand Shaped + Hand Textured + Hollow Cor...
Maple
$28,098 / item
ORO - OT2 Coffee Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
ORO - OT2 coffee table by John Eric Byers ORO Collection Dimensions: W91.5 x D91.5 x H30.5 cm Materials: Maple Hardwood + Gold Metallic Lacquer Hand Shaped + Hand Textured + H...
Maple
$28,098 / item
Reveal Block Coffee Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Reveal block coffee table by John Eric Byers. Dimensions: W 127 x D 76 x H 28 cm. Materials: Carved, stack laminated, lacquered maple. All works are individually handmade to ord...
Maple
$35,761 / item
Carved and Walnut BW-4S Table Bench by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Carved and Walnut BW-4S Table Bench by John Eric Byers Dimensions: W 97 x D 97 x H 36 cm. Materials: Carved, Walnut. John Eric Byers creates geometrically inspired pieces that are m...
Walnut
$12,772 / item
Maple Square Table #2 Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table #2 sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 20” x 15” x 15 in Materials: Carved lacquered maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creat...
Maple
$30,652 / item
T3 Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
T3 Table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D 51 x W 173 x H 35.5 cm. Materials: White oak wood. John Eric Byers creates geometrically inspired pieces that are minimal, emotional, and ...
Oak
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Maple Square Table #1 Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table #1 sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 20” x 18” x 18 in Materials: carved lacquered maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers...
Maple
$28,098 / item
T1 Coffee Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
T1 coffee table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 35.5 x 152.4 x 55.9 cm Materials: carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creates ...
Maple
$35,761 / item
Maple Low Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple low table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 33 x 71 x 198 cm Materials: Carved blackened Maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creat...
Maple
$14,049 / item
T4 Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
T4 Table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D 38 x W 56 x H 51 cm. Materials: White oak wood. John Eric Byers creates geometrically inspired pieces that are minimal, emotional, and mod...
Oak
$12,772 / item
Table #13 by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Table #13 by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D46 x H50 cm Materials: carved + blackened + maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creates geometrically insp...
Other
$30,652 / item
Reveal Block Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Reveal block table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: W 28 x D 175.5 x H 71.5 cm. Materials: sawn, lacquer, maple. All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers c...
Maple, Lacquer
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Maple Round Table #2 Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table #2 sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 20” x 16” x 16 in Materials: Carved lacquered maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers...
Maple
$35,761 / item
Maple Round Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 45.7 x diameter 107 cm Materials: Carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Bye...
Maple
$28,098 / item
R2 Maple Round Low Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table sculpted by John Eric Byers R2 maple round low table sculpted by John Eric Byers Materials: Carved blackened maple. All works are individually handmade to orde...
Maple
$28,098 / set
Set Of 2 T4 Tables by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 T4 Tables by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D 38 x W 56 x H 51 cm (each). Materials: White oak wood. John Eric Byers creates geometrically inspired pieces that are minimal, e...
Oak
$14,049 / item
Maple Round Table #1 Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table #1 sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 20” x 20” x 20 in Materials: Carved lacquered maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers...
Maple
$28,098 / item
Maple Round Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple round table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 33 x diameter 122 cm Materials: carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers...
Maple
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Luna Coffee Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna coffee table sculpted by John Eric Byers. Dimensions: 40.6 x diameter 122 cm. Materials: carved blackened maple, travertine. All works are individually handmade to order. ...
Travertine
$20,435 / item
Pillar Console by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Pillar console by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 81.3 x 50.8 x 135.6 cm Materials: Carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order...
Maple
$35,761 / item
Offset Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Offset table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 33 x 117 x 190.5 cm Materials: Carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creat...
Maple
$33,207 / item
Maple Low Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Maple low table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 33 x 107 x 198 cm Materials: Carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers crea...
Maple
$28,098 / item
R3 Maple Round Low Table Sculpted by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
R3 maple round low table sculpted by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 33 x diameter 122 cm Materials: Carved blackened maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eri...
Maple
$12,772 / item
Table #14 by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Table #14 by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D40 x H50 cm Materials: carved + blackened + maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creates geometrically insp...
Other
$28,098 / item
T2 Coffee Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
T2 coffee table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 35.5 x 155 x 55.9 cm Materials: carved blackened Maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creates ge...
Maple
John Eric Byers, "Reveal Block", Table, 2022
By John Eric Byers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This solid maple piece from John Eric Byers merges modern, simplified geometries with traditional craft, painstakingly hand carved and lacquered with a distinctive textured pattern t...
Maple
2-Tier Entretoise Side Table by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
2-tier 'Entretoise' side table by Design Frères. Wrought iron base with 2 thin travertine shelves. Shelves are removable for secure shippi...
Travertine, Wrought Iron
Blocks Coffee Table
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The Blocks coffee table was inspired by the construction context in Mexico, a reinterpretation of an authentic multitask table by mexican workers: cast blocks and a multi-material top. These pieces are hand carved by artisans from the region in mexican stones...
Stone
$1,634 / item
H 28.75 in W 39.65 in D 39.65 in
Kartell Invisible Square Table in Crystal by Tokujin Yoshioka
By Tokujin Yoshioka, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Invisible Table designed by Tokujin Yoshioka combines lightness and solidity, grace and elegance and practicality and style. Its simplicity and purity of form makes it adaptable to a...
Plastic
FORNASETTI Butterfly Square Side Table
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage original square table with transfer-printed wooden top in the design of butterflies, it can be used as a side table or center table / made in Milan Italy by Fornasetti, 1970s...
Wood
Walnut Coffee Table by George Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Original Walnut Coffee Table by George Nakashima. About George Nakashima: George Katsutoshi Nakashima was an American woodworker, architect, an...
Walnut
Kai Kristiansen Walnut and Mohair Mohair Velvet Bench
By Kai Kristiansen
Located in London, England
A beuatiful bench designed by Danish master Kai Kristiansen in the 1950s and now produced under license by Dagmar in Denmark. This hand-made to order bench has a solid walnut frame ...
Mohair, Oak, Walnut
$11,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 26 in Dm 22 in
John Dickinson, Sutherland, Sculpted Africa Side Table, Painted Plaster, 21st c.
By John Dickinson, Sutherland
Located in Stamford, CT
John Dickinson, Sutherland, Sculpted Africa Side Table, Painted Plaster, 21st c. A painted plaster occasional table signed John Dickinson for Sutherland. The conical top above three stylized large shaped legs inspired by African design. One leg with minor repair. Strong and sturdy. Licensed reproduction by Sutherland. John Dickinson (1920-1982) Model African side table Painted plaster Model originally created in the 1970s Bibliography: J. Lovine & T. Merrill, "Modern Americana...
Plaster, Paint
2-Tier Entretoise Side Table by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
2-tier 'Entretoise' side table by Design Frères. Wrought iron base with 2 thin travertine shelves. Shelves are removable for secure shippi...
Travertine, Wrought Iron
Blocks Coffee Table
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The blocks coffee table was inspired by the construction context in Mexico, a reinterpretation of an authentic multitask table by Mexican workers: cast blocks and a multi-material top. These pieces are hand carved by artisans from the region in mexican stones...
Stone
$1,857Sale Price|20% Off
H 31.5 in W 47.25 in D 46.46 in
Round table in walnut and beech wood, carved legs, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique round table in walnut and beech wood, carved turned legs, original from the 19th century, Origin Saluzzo (Italy). Size cm w 120 x D 118 x H 80
Walnut
Teardrop Side Table, by ATRA
By ATRA, Alexander Andersson Diaz
Located in New York, NY
The Teardrop Side Table, by ATRA [Alexander Andersson Diaz] Designed to nest and sold as a set, individual tables avaialble for sale. Listed price is for Grade A material. All ATR...
Marble, Onyx, Travertine, Brass, Stainless Steel
Organic Coffee Table by Sam Forrest
By Sam Forrest
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A fantastic, one-off coffee table by master studio craftsman Sam Forrest, circa 1969. Solid mahogany. Signed underneath and authenticated by the arist as one of his earliest, importa...
Mahogany