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Paul Evans Sculptural Dining/Game/Center Table in Welded Steel 1960s 'Signed'

$35,000List Price

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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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Brutalist Cast Metal Geometric Dining Table in the Manner of Paul Evans

$9,800

H 29.5 in W 78 in D 48 in

Brutalist Cast Metal Geometric Dining Table in the Manner of Paul Evans

By Paul Evans

Located in Culver City, CA

This table is absolutely gorgeous. It's a cast metal body with what a cold cast bronze outer shell. This one of a kind, custom piece came out of an estate in the Pacific Palisades filled with the most incredible furniture by Paul Evans, Daniel Gluck and Italian designer pieces. Unfortunately we have been unable to identify the creator of this piece, but it is very much in the style of Paul Evans and his cold cast bronze line for Directional. The table base measures 56" L x 24" D x 28.25" T. The glass on the table base is also custom, 3/4" thick with docked corners for a very unique look when up close and personal. This table is remarkably sturdy, and very heavy. This unique table would also look incredible as a writing desk. This incredible table is currently in the gallery paired with like designer pieces by Paul Evans, and Silas Seandel, but would also look wonderful paired with more contemporary pieces like Milo Baughman thin line chairs...

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$5,195 / set

H 15 in W 36 in D 17 in

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By Paul Evans

Located in Franklin Park, IL

Paul Evans style mid-century steel coffee table. The table measures: 36 wide x 17 deep x 15 inches high. All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call restored vintage con...

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$1,600

H 30.25 in W 35.5 in D 55 in

Brutalist Steel Center, Dining or Console Table in the Style of Silas Seandel

By Silas Seandel, Paul Evans

Located in Miami, FL

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Adrian Pearsall Mid-Century Modern Dining Table Base, Starburst, 1970

$12,000

H 29.5 in W 40 in D 29 in

Adrian Pearsall Mid-Century Modern Dining Table Base, Starburst, 1970

By Adrian Pearsall

Located in Queens, NY

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Modernist, Steel, Geometric Dining Table Base, USA, 21st c.

$13,000

H 30 in W 38.5 in D 20.25 in

Modernist, Steel, Geometric Dining Table Base, USA, 21st c.

Located in Stamford, CT

Contemporary, Steel, Geometric Dining Table Base, USA, 21st c. Inspired by the mathematical and computational geometry concept of the Delaunay triangulation algorithm, this distinct...

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Exceptional Sculpted Bronze Dining Table by Paul Evans

$36,000

H 29.5 in W 108 in D 54 in

Exceptional Sculpted Bronze Dining Table by Paul Evans

By Paul Evans

Located in Atlanta, GA

Substantial Brutalist dining table base by Paul Evans for Directional, circa 1977. Iconic "sculpted bronze" series, with handcrafted surfac...

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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables

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Welded Polychromed and Patinated Steel "Skyline Dining" Table by Paul Evans

$75,000

H 30 in W 72 in D 42.25 in

Welded Polychromed and Patinated Steel "Skyline Dining" Table by Paul Evans

By Paul Evans

Located in Montreal, QC

Welded polychromed and patinated steel "skyline dining" table by Paul Evans. Welded signature and date to base ‘Paul Evans 73’. Dimensions of the base: H:29 W:40 D:18 in. USA c.1973 ...

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SOLD 03/24/26 Paul Evans for Directional PE-102 Stalagmite Bronze Dining Table

$22,995

H 28.75 in W 90 in D 47.75 in

SOLD 03/24/26 Paul Evans for Directional PE-102 Stalagmite Bronze Dining Table

By Paul Evans, Directional

Located in Franklin Park, IL

Paul Evans for Directional PE-102 Mid Century Stalagmite Bronze Dining Table This dining table measures: 90 wide x 47.75 deep x 28.75 inches high, with a chair clearance of 28 inche...

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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables

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Sculpted Steel Low Table

Price Upon Request

H 35 in W 35 in D 20 in

Sculpted Steel Low Table

By Paul Evans

Located in New York, NY

Paul Evans (1931–1987) was a visionary American furniture designer, sculptor, and artist celebrated for his groundbreaking role in the American Craft Movement of the 1970s. Renowned ...

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Paul Evans Inspired Brutalist Steel Toned Coffee or Side Table with Glass Top

$3,250

H 18.25 in W 36 in D 36 in

Paul Evans Inspired Brutalist Steel Toned Coffee or Side Table with Glass Top

By Paul Evans

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A striking example of Brutalist design, this Mid-Century coffee or side table is deeply inspired by the work of American designer Paul Evans. Its bold, sculptural base evokes the tex...

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By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne

Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Rare “Chrysanthemum” coffee table, hand-brazed in patinated bronze with a glass top, is by Philip and Kelvin Laverne, American 1970's (signed "Philip Kelvin Laverne" on side of base)...

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Philip and Kelvin Laverne Unique "Chinois Table" 1960s (Signed)

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By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne

Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Rare "Odyssey" Coffee Table 1960s (Signed)

By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne

Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL

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By Karl Springer

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