Designer and sculptor, Paul Evans was a key figure in the late 20th-century modernism movement. His early works combine these influences. The pieces that made him famous are known as “sculpted-front cabinets”: wooden chests covered with boxes featuring high-relief steel frames arranged in a grid. Each support contains a metal emblem or glyph.

Evans’ later works can be divided into three distinct stylistic groups. His sculpted bronze pieces, begun in the mid-1960s, show Evans at the height of his expressiveness. He used a technique in which resin was hand-molded and then sprayed with a metal coating, allowing for artistic nuances in the creation of chairs, tables, and objects. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Evans produced the Argente series for the famous producer Directional (a brand well-known to mid-century vintage furniture collectors): consoles and other furniture featuring metal surfaces in aluminum and pigment, welded into abstract organic shapes and patterns.