Daniel Jackson
Headboard, 1969
Material: Cherry
A masterwork by legendary Studio Craft artist and educator Daniel Jackson – a highly sculptural, biomorphic headboard which incorporates two table surfaces on either side of the form. The work’s sweeping, undulating lines flow poetically through various topographic carves and organic protuberances.
The design is complex, incorporating two night table surfaces on each end; the entire piece is made of one section of wood except one of the table surfaces. The work was exhibited 2003 at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
Summing up his approach to design, Jackson said: “There is not a great difference between the two (sculpture and furniture). Furniture must fill a specific function. Then it can go on to be aesthetic. Sculpture is purely aesthetic from the beginning. What I am trying to do is marry the two.”
Daniel Jackson was born in Milwaukee in 1938. His mother was an antique dealer, and he was buying and restoring antiques by the age of 13. His later training was based in the Scandinavian approach to design, having studied under Tage Frid at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He followed that with an apprenticeship to Peder Moos in Denmark from 1960-62.
| Dimensions | 89 × 12.5 × 17 in |
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| Date | 1969 |
| Material | cherry |
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