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"Salt & Pepper Set" Paul Evans, Pewter, Danish, Mid-Century Modern

Name: "Salt & Pepper Set" Paul Evans, Pewter, Danish, Mid-Century Modern
Brand: Paul Evans
Price: 950 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

"Salt & Pepper Set" is an exquisite and rare 2-piece polished pewter set designed for Raymor in Denmark. Underside of each impressed with Pewter and Raymor stamps. These pieces have been restored to Museum Quality by Frank Powell of Powell Pewter, established in 1988. The pieces he has restored are displayed in leading museums and collections throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Evans was born in Newtown, Pennsylvania and is best known for his Mid-Century Modern furniture designs, and only produced a few coffee set designs. This set displays his creative ability to craft ordinary objects into sleek pieces of art. Tedd Merrill Studio describes Paul Evans as an “iconic American furniture designer, sculptor and artist who is famous for his contributions to the American Craft Movement of the 1970s and for his work with the influential American manufacturer Directional Furniture. His creation of metal sculpted furniture set him apart. Paul Evans’ Brutalist-inspired sculpted metal furnishings distinguish him from others in the world of design. He attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The Cranbrook Academy of Art was designed by architect and faculty member, Eliel Saarinen who collaborated with Charles and Ray Eames on chair and furniture design. Numerous creative artists who are alumni of Cranbrook include: Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll, Jack Lenor Larsen, Donald Lipski, Duane Hanson, Nick Cave, Hani Rashid, George Nelson, Urban Jupena (Nationally recognized fiber artist), Artis Lane (the first African-American artist to have her sculpture, "Sojourner Truth," commissioned for the Emancipation Hall in the Capital Visitor Center in Washington DC), Cory Puhlman (televised Pastry Chef extraordinaire), Thom O’Connor (Lithographs.) He later settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and shared a showroom with woodworker Phillip Lloyd Powell.

Creator:

Paul Evans (Designer)

Sold As:

Set of 2

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Pewter,Metalwork,Polished

Place of Origin:

Denmark

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1950s

Condition:

Seller Location:

Bloomfield Hills, MI

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU7781233592032

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Paul Evans

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 sideboards, credenzas, coffee tables and other 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 Phillip 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 case pieces. Later in the decade and into the 1970s, Evans produced his Argente series for celebrated manufacturer Directional (a brand known to vintage mid-century modern furniture collectors everywhere): 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 — a milestone in the history of brutalist design — 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.

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