Coffee and Cocktail Tables

A stunning brutalist Paul Evans PE-128 coffee table which was part of the "Sculptured Metal Collection" for Directional. This dramatic cocktail table ...

A stunning Paul Evans model PE-14-42 'Four-Pyramid' cocktail table which was part of the "Sculptured Metal Collection" for Directional. This dramatic petal shaped cocktail table is c...

An incredible Paul Evans Brutalist coffee table. Bronze/Brutalist design from the American Craft movement of the 1970s, signed. Dimensions: ...

Paul Evans sculpted bronze coffee table, 1974. This piece is signed PE 74 to the base.

One of the most recognizable and important names in the American studio craft movement of the 1960's and 70's, Paul Evans was a groundbreaking pioneer in brutalism. Collaborating as well as sharing a showroom with Phillip Lloyd Powell until 1964 when Evans met the owner of Directional Furniture and created a line of 6 coffee tables to go into the Directional High Point, NC booth for the spring Market. As the story has been recounted by Dorsey Reading, the tables never even made it to the showroom floor. Evans soon found out the tables never even had the opportunity to be sold; obviously disappointed, owner of Directional, BG agreed to put the tables out on the showroom floor in New York City to placate Evans. What happened can probably best be compared today with "going viral." The coffee tables started flying off the floor, and the orders came rolling in. This fervor led to Evans creating eventually over 800 designs with Directional-- with the very first series being the "Sculptured Metal" Collection which was publicized in 1968. We believe this is one of the original first designs as its photograph is featured as such in the documentary "Paul Evans, Cold Metal into Furniture Art." This piece specifically is the PE-11 Angle Cocktail Table in Oxidized Steel and Bronze. This piece is signed and dated by Evans "PE 68" making it an early example of this piece, and line of furniture. It's extremely important to note: Directional Furniture showrooms in New York City and Chicago were private to-the-trade only showrooms, so only interior designers and their clients were able to custom order these pieces through the showroom. There was never any "inventory" of furniture. Each and every piece was a custom, hand crafted work of art, created to order. No two of any piece were ever alike. Evans eventually went on to employ a team of nearly 90 people, working two shifts-- helping to hand-craft his designs. This could easily explain why not every piece is hand signed, therefore making an early, had-signed piece like this even more desirable for a collector. This piece has a wonderful patina, with vibrant colors and while still brutalist in nature, it's a bit more subdued and could effortlessly be blended into any contemporary environment. We currently have this piece in the gallery paired with a Vladimir Kagan serpentine cloud sofa, and a Karl Springer goatskin credenza...

A sculpted bronze coffee table designed by Paul Evans for Direcional.

Spectacular and dramatic stalagmite coffee table by Paul Evans, circa 1972. This coffee table which was part of the "Sculptured Metal Collection" for Directional. Model PE-128. Signe...

A stunning Paul Evans brutalist Cocktail table which was part of the "Sculptured Metal Collection" for Directional. This dramatic cocktail table is comprised of a dark patinated bron...

This Brutalist Paul Evans Patchwork coffee table is clad in mixed metals - copper, pewter, bronze, and topped with the rarely selecte...

Hand-welded and colored sculptural coffee table, model PE-11 with thick glass top, by Paul Evans for Directional Furniture, American 1974 (signed and dated “P.E. 1974” on bottom corn...

This rare and sophisticated Mid-Century Modern Brutalist “PE-131” hand sculpted bronze cocktail table was realized (and signed) by Paul Evans- one of the most celebrated and importan...

An original Paul Evans model PE-128 cocktail table having sculpted bronze Brutalist base underneath of a substantial 3/4” thick tempered glass top from the ‘Sculptured Metal Collecti...