Paul Evans Mirrors

A designer and sculptor, Paul Evans was a wild card of late 20th century modernism. A leading light of the American Studio Furniture movement, Evans’s work manifests a singular aesthetic sense, as well as a seemingly contradictory appreciation for both “folk art” forms and for new materials and technologies.
Evans’s primary material was metal, not wood, which was favored by his fellow studio designers, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, neighbors George Nakashima and Philip Lloyd Powell. He trained in metallurgy and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the famed crucible of modern design and art in suburban Detroit. For a time early in his career, Evans also worked at Sturbridge Village, a historical “living museum” in Massachusetts, where he gave demonstrations as a costumed silversmith.
Evans’s earliest work unites these influences. The pieces that made his reputation are known as “sculpted-front” cabinets: wood cases faced with box-like high-relief patinated steel mounts laid out in a grid pattern. Each mount contains a metal emblem, or glyph, and the effect is that of a brawny quilt.
Evans’s later work falls into three distinct style groups. His sculpted-bronze pieces, begun in the mid-1960s, show Evans at his most expressive. He employed a technique in which resin is hand-shaped, and later sprayed with a metal coating, allowing for artistic nuance in the making of chairs, tables and cabinets. Later in the decade and into the 1970s, Evans produced his Argente series: consoles and other furniture forms that feature aluminum and pigment-infused metal surfaces welded into abstract organic forms and patterns.
Last, Evans's Cityscape design series meshed perfectly with the sleek, “high tech” sensibility of the later ’70s. Evans constructed boxy forms and faced them with irregular mosaic patterns that mixed rectangular plaques of chromed steel, bronze or burlwood veneer. These, like all of Paul Evans’s designs, are both useful and eye-catching. But their appeal has another, more visceral quality: these pieces have clearly been touched by an artist’s hand.
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Bronze
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Bronze
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass
1960s American Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Bronze
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Chrome
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Steel, Pewter
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Metal
Mid-20th Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Pewter
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Metal
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Metal
1970s American Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1970s North American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Steel, Fabric, Resin
1960s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Steel, Cut Glass, Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Mirror, Murano Glass, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Murano Glass, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Murano Glass
1960s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Glass, Mirror
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Murano Glass
1970s American Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Steel
20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Bronze, Copper, Pewter
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Steel
1960s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Copper, Bronze, Pewter
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Steel
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1970s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Metal
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Slate, Pewter, Copper, Bronze
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Mirrors
Chrome