"Bruce Fox Design Aluminum Palm Frond c1950s Serving Platter"
$250
Sz: 25 3/4"L x 5 1/2"W
Stamped: Wilton Columbia, PA USA
1950's palm frond (or banana leaf) cast solid aluminum footed tray. Bruce Fox was a young artist, sculptor, and visionary in 1938 when, upon returning to the United States after an adventure through Central America, he founded his own company and began hand crafting decorative, yet functional objects. While in Panama, Fox had learned the trade of metal-smithing in the native tradition, and decided to combine these traditional methods of metalworking with perhaps the most high-tech material of the era.