Incollect Magazine - Issue 6

Incollect Magazine 33 Argente Series custom king size canopy bed, circa 1968. Welded waves of polished and matte black aluminum. Concealed inner rail for curtain, top ledge will support a fabric canopy or mirrored ceiling. From Todd Merrill Studio on Incollect. Evans’ designs are often associated with the period style in architecture, design, and art known as Brutalism, which emphasized materials, textured surfaces, and making visible construction processes. The term was first applied to architecture in the early 1950s and is believed to originate from the French “beton brut,” meaning “raw concrete,” used by architect Le Corbusier to describe the emerging geometric style of buildings in the 1950s with raw and expressive poured concrete finishes. Evans is certainly at the forefront of the Brutalist design movement that took place in the 1960s in America, though the affiliation is somewhat misleading given inspiration for his pieces came from many sources. The American Craft Movement of the 1960s and 70s celebrated individual creation, artisanship, and craftsmanship as opposed to mass