Paul Evans Wall Decorations

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.
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Slate, Metal, Brass, Bronze
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze, Steel
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Chrome
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Chrome
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Metal
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Steel, Glass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Oak, Cork
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Cut Steel
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Steel, Glass
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Belgian Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Steel, Slag Glass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Brass, Travertine
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
1970s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze, Steel
1970s American Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Brass
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Brass
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
1950s American Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Bronze
20th Century American Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Resin
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Chrome
20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Slate, Metal
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Slate, Copper, Bronze, Pewter
1970s American Vintage Paul Evans Wall Decorations
Metal