1951 Predictor Group 4005(?) Buffet/Server manufactured by O'Hearn Furniture

There's an almost total lack of documentation on Paul McCobb's 1951 Predictor Group collection. What information I have been able to assemble over the past years research comes almost entirely from 3rd party sources such as newspaper and magazine articles. Once you add it all together a pretty clear picture emerges.

 

This Predictor Group Buffet for instance is never directly referred to in any of the Directional promotional materials that I have amassed. It does appear in the background of a few Directional ads detailing the Predictor Group but nothing is ever written about it in any of the literature I have collected, with only one exception: a photo and direct attribution blurb in Mario Del Fabbro's 1954 "Furniture for Modern Interiors", page 128.

 

Little know fact: Mario Del Fabbro was an employee of Paul McCobb Design Associates for many years and maintained a close personal friendship with both Paul and his wife Molly long after he was no longer employed by them. Predictor

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