Daniel Jackson
Headboard, 1972
Material: Curly Maple
A 1972 Headboard by legendary Studio Craft master and educator Daniel Jackson. Made from highly figured Curly Maple, the work’s sculptural form unfolds across the entire headboard encompassing numerous peaks, valleys, and curvilinear expressions.
Additionally, at the center point of the bottom of the headboard, a concealed hiding mechanism is incorporated. The cylindrical mechanism, which inserts vertically into a hollowed-out space in the headboard, rotates and locks in via a wooden pin.
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 | 62.5 × 3 × 18.5 in |
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| Date | 1972 |
| Material | Curly Maple |
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