Mid-Century Modern Paul McCobb Credenza Media Console Vintage 1950 USA

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This is a rare Mid-Century Modern piece designed by Paul McCobb and built by the Winchendon Furniture Company "Planner Group" in Winchendon, Massachusetts. It can be used as a sideboard credenza, media console, or bar cabinet.It's phenomenally well-constructed of black lacquered solid birch and has off-white grass cloth sliding front doors. There's an enormous amount of storage space inside of it.The doors have aluminum circular finger pulls and the birch legs are elegantly tapered.The foil label on the back reads:Planner GroupDesigned by Paul McCobbWinchendon Furniture CompanyWinchendon, Mass.DimensionsHeight: 25"Width: 60"Depth: 18"About the designer:Paul McCobbYou could call Paul McCobb a man of parts. As a furniture designer, his work combined the attributes of many of his now better-known peers. Like Bauhaus designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, McCobb's furniture had purity of form and line. Like the designs of Florence Knoll and George Nelson and his associates, McCobb's work was efficient and purposeful. And even like George Nakashima, he was adept at interpreting traditional forms, in particular those of chairs, for the 20th century.More than any other designer beside Russel Wright, with his ubiquitous ceramic tableware, McCobb was arguably responsible for the introduction of modern design into middle-class read more