Paul Mccobb For Lane Furniture
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Oak, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Leather, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rosewood, Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Desks and Writing Tables
Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Cane, Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets
Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Cane, Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Rosewood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Chrome
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Cane, Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Metal
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Cane, Rosewood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Bookcases
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Chrome
20th Century American Credenzas
Chrome
Vintage 1960s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rosewood
20th Century American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Rosewood
Vintage 1960s American Side Tables
Rosewood, Oak
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Paul McCobb Biography and Important Works
You could call Paul McCobb a man of parts. As a furniture designer, his work combined the attributes of many of his now better-known peers. Like Bauhaus designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, McCobb's furniture had purity of form and line. Like the designs of Florence Knoll and George Nelson and his associates, McCobb’s work was efficient and purposeful. And even like George Nakashima, he was adept at interpreting traditional forms, in particular those of chairs, for the 20th century.
More than any other designer beside Russel Wright, with his ubiquitous ceramic tableware, McCobb was arguably responsible for the introduction of modern design into middle-class American households — if for no other reason than that he designed the 1952 set for the original Today show. McCobb also designed cohesive lines of furnishings, such as his best-known Planner Group, that gave homes an instant “look.” McCobb designed for several companies, most notably Directional, the New York firm that also produced designs by other legends, such as Paul Evans and Vladimir Kagan.
The signal aesthetic attribute of McCobb designs is that he completely forsook ornament — his pieces have no flourishes. And yet, because they are honest — the chairs, desks and tables are made of solid wood, usually maple or birch, often paired with frames and legs of wrought iron; the cabinets are traditionally scaled; the seating pieces have historic antecedents such as the Windsor chair — McCobb’s mid-century modern work has warmth and presence.
As you can see from the offerings on 1stDibs, vintage Paul McCobb designs are the pin-striped suit, or the little black dress, of a décor: an essential.
A Close Look at Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe mid-century modern American furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale, in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century designers caught the spirit.
Classically-oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb — who designed holistic groups of sleek, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern American furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.