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Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

American, 1931-1987

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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Creator: Paul Evans
Paul Evans, Metal Ice Bucket, circa 1970
By Paul Evans
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Brutalist 'patchwork' ice bucket, circa 1970, by Paul Evans. Constructed from patinated and hammered metals riveted over a plywood frame, with hinged lid and white plastic liner. 2...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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"Salt & Pepper Set" Paul Evans, Pewter, Danish, Mid-Century Modern
By Paul Evans
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
"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 ...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Pewter

Coffee Set, Early Paul Evans, Pewter, Danish Mid-Century Modern
By Paul Evans
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Early Coffee Set" is an exquisite and rare 3-piece pewter coffee set adorned with knobs and handles of rosewood. The set includes coffee pot 8.50” x 6”, covered ...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Pewter

Paul Evans Pewter Coffee Set, Danish, Mid-Century Modern
By Paul Evans
Located in Bloomfield Hills, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Early Coffee Set" is an exquisite and rare 3-piece pewter coffee set adorned with knobs and handles of rosewood. The set include...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Paul Evans for Directional "Cityscape" Chrome and Brass Ice Bucket, 1970's
By Paul Evans, Directional
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Paul Evans for Directional Furniture Cityscape Series gold and chrome mirror ice bucket with thermos liner. Featuring a square hinged brass and chrom...
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1970s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Brutalist Metal Patchwork Box with Insert Paul Evans
By Paul Evans
Located in Atlanta, GA
A cube form desktop box covered with patchwork copper by American artist and designer Paul Evans (1931-1987). The lidded box has a plastic insert box and was made as an ice box or a ...
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Metal

Paul Evans Ice Bucket, Cityscape, Brass, Chrome, Glass
By Paul Evans, Directional
Located in New York, NY
Paul Evans ice bucket, Cityscape brass, chrome, glass. Chunky brass and chrome patchwork ice bucket with hinged lid from Evans' Cityscape series ...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Paul Evans & Phillip Lloyd Powell, Very Rare, Walnut and Pewter Bottle
By Phillip Lloyd Powell, Paul Evans
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a very rare bottle. Only 5 were made because it was very difficult to make. This one was a gift to one of our clients.
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1960s American Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Paul Evans Ashtray Set
By Paul Evans
Located in Georges Mills, NH
Paul Evans smoking set constructed from cuban mahogany and inlayed pewter, with removable pewter cap. Inset petwer plug in base reads 'Designers Inc Paul Evans'.
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Brutalist 1960s Paul Evans Patchwork Metal Ashtray, Mid-Century Modern
By Paul Evans
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Brutalist 1960s Paul Evans patchwork metal ashtray. The black metal dish is removable for easy cleaning. Great for the Mid-Century collector who has e...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paul Evans Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

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Metal

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