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Paul Evans Sculpture Front Cabinet

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- CreatorPaul Evans (Designer)
- DimensionsHeight: 36.50 in. (92.71 cm)Width: 98.00 in. (248.92 cm)Depth: 23.00 in. (58.42 cm)
- Materials and Techniques
- Place of Origin
- Period
- Date of Manufacture1970
- ConditionRepaired: Slate top had a few chips on the edge, they have been filled in (see photo's). Very Good Condition with good color A few spots on the slate top seem to have been filled in on the edge see photo's. This cabinet has holes in the back where it was bolted to a wall.
- Seller LocationWest Palm Beach, FL
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU843214158762
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About Paul Evans (Designer)
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.
- By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLPaul Evans sculpted bronze cabinet Incised signature and date Original surface, grain painted interior and shelf.Category
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- By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLA great early form, consisting of patinated copper, bronze and pewter. Original red painted interior.Category
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- By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLAn early set of three cabinets with finished interiors. All shelves and mounting cleats are present. Signed Pa...Category
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MaterialsChrome
- By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLPaul Evans Mirror,PE 17,consisting of patinated and welded steel,brass,copper And pewter.Category
Vintage 1970s American Wall Mirrors
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$6,800 - By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLA matched pair of cube tables exhibiting a vibrant original surface slate top insert, marked at the base.Category
Vintage 1960s American Tables
MaterialsSlate, Metal
$18,000 / set - By Paul EvansLocated in West Palm Beach, FLPaul Evans Cityscape sofa from the 200 series. Manufactured by Directional Furniture circa 1970 Older, clean r...Category
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MaterialsChrome
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