Don Shoemaker Parquetry Work Box for Senal SA, Mexico, Label
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great parquetry box, designed for Don Shoemaker, label, Senal SA.
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Modern Boxes
Materials
Wood
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Mid-Century Mexican Modern Don Shoemaker Senal SA Sling Swinger Chairs Set of 4
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent set of four rare original Mid-Century Modern Mexican bocote wood and black leather "Swingers" by legendary designer Don S. Shoemaker (1919-1990) This iconic Modernist ...
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Don Shoemaker Folding Arm Chair, Mexico c.1960
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Don Shoemaker Folding Arm Chair, Mexico c.1960
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original folding arm chair designed by Don Shoemaker for Senal SA. Can be used as dining chair or accent chair.
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Materials
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Don Shoemaker Folding Arm Chair, Mexico c.1960
$3,395Sale Price|32% Off
Don Shoemaker Folding Arm Chair, Mexico c.1960
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original folding arm chairs designed by Don Shoemaker for Senal SA. Can be used as dining chair or accent chair.
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Don Shoemaker Stool
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The legs are pinned with pegs to base. Signed with a Senal SA tag.
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Benches
Custom Don Shoemaker Dining Table
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Made in Santa Maria de Guido, Mexico. Senal, SA.
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Dining Room Tables
Materials
Cocobolo
Cocobolo Vessel by Mexican Modernist Don Shoemaker, 1970s
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Diego, CA
Shortly after, he started a furniture and Craft business in Señal SA in Morelia, Michoacán and lived there until his death in 1990.
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Don Shoemaker Box with Senal SA, Mexico, Label
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this fantastic parquetry box, designed for Don Shoemaker, includes, Senal SA label, circa 1960. About Don Shoemaker: Coming from an affluent family, Don was originally f...
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Vintage 1960s Don Shoemaker Cocobolo Cigarette Box
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Antonio, TX
Minor scratch on top of box and several minor scratches on the bottom of the box. (See photos). Senal SA labeled on bottom of the box, Mexico, 1960s.
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DON SHOEMAKER
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Chicago, IL
Shoemaker Studio Box, using several exotic woods Señal Signed with paper studio label to underside: [Senal SA Hecho En Mexico].
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Vintage 1970s Mexican Boxes
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Rare Exotic Cocobolo Rosewood Dining Table by Don Shoemaker for Senal, Signed
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H 30 in W 74 in D 38 in
Rare Exotic Cocobolo Rosewood Dining Table by Don Shoemaker for Senal, Signed
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Also consider this Don Shoemaker for Senal SA dining table as a bit of juxtaposition in an otherwise Post-Modern or Organic Modern space.
Category
Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
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Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Lidded Catch-All Box, Signed
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H 2.5 in W 8 in D 5.5 in
Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Lidded Catch-All Box, Signed
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We also have other Don Shoemaker items in stock including 'Sloucher' lounge chairs and 'Swinger' armchairs, the super rare sculptural dining table, trays, lidded boxes and accessorie...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
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Don Shoemaker Spice Rack for Señal SA
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
In theory, this piece was part of a set of kitchen spice racks, the lid is missing, it can be used as a storage for pens or a sweet bowl Born in Nebraska, Don S. Shoemaker studied p...
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Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Lidded Box, Signed
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We also have other Don Shoemaker items in stock including 'Sloucher' lounge chairs and 'Swinger' armchairs, the super rare sculptural dining table, trays, lidded boxes and accessorie...
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
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Large Cocobolo Rosewood Lidded Box by Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A., Signed
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We also have other Don Shoemaker items in stock including 'Sloucher' lounge chairs and 'Swinger' armchairs, the super rare sculptural dining table, trays, lidded boxes and accessorie...
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
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Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Swinger Chair and Ottoman, Signed
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H 33 in W 30.5 in D 30 in
Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Swinger Chair and Ottoman, Signed
By Senal, Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
We also have another large set of Swinger armchairs, if you are looking to make a pair or a set of 4, and we also have other Don Shoemaker items in stock including the Sloucher loung...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Swinger Chair and Ottoman, Signed
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H 33 in W 30.5 in D 30 in
Don Shoemaker for Senal S.A. Cocobolo Rosewood Swinger Chair and Ottoman, Signed
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The removable ottoman seat floats on top of cording giving this pair and incredible and unique styling making it appear as if it was floating on air. Don S Shoemaker for Senal S.A. l...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
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4th OF JULY SALE! Sloucher Slings by Don Shoemaker, Original Leather
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H 27.5 in W 23.5 in D 25.5 in
4th OF JULY SALE! Sloucher Slings by Don Shoemaker, Original Leather
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The solid jacaranda rosewood frames support the original thick saddle leather slings in classic black. Manufactured by Senal SA, Mexico, one of the pair features its original label. ...
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Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Chairs
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Don Shoemaker Sling Swinger Lounge Chair for Senal SA
Located in Long Beach, CA
Don Shoemaker Leather and Cocobolo Wood Sling Swinger Lounge Chair for Senal SA Made in Mexico c. 1960's. Good Original condition.
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Cuerno Table by Don Shoemaker for Senal SA, Mexico, 1960s
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Sylacauga, AL
A stunning side table, known as the Cuerno table, by Don Shoemaker in cocobolo (rosewood) parquetry top with bocote legs, Mexico, 1960s.
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Don Shoemaker Suite for Senal SA, Mexico, 1960s
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Located in Sylacauga, AL
A suite by Don Shoemaker comprised of a pair of lounge chairs and ottomans, in bocote, a Central American hardwood, and leather. In lovely, original condition. The tops of the chair...
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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the senal sa you’re looking for. A senal sa — often made from wood, metal and bronze — can elevate any home. There are many kinds of the senal sa you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A senal sa, designed in the mid-century modern, Art Deco or industrial style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one senal sa that is appealing in its simplicity, but Don S. Shoemaker, Senal and Edouard Drouot produced versions that are worth a look.
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Don S. Shoemaker for sale on 1stDibs
If it weren’t for his honeymoon, American furniture designer Don S. Shoemaker might not have played any role in Mexican modernism of the mid-20th century.
Born in Nebraska in 1919, Shoemaker studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1930s. In the 1940s he got married, and he and his wife, Barbara, ventured to Mexico for their honeymoon. Enamored with the country, Shoemaker decided that Mexico should become the newlyweds' permanent home. They settled in a town called Santa Maria de Guido in Michoacán, where Shoemaker spent his days painting and growing rare plants.
Through horticulture, Shoemaker became inspired by Mexico’s tropical woods, such as cocobolo, a Mexican rosewood, and he decided to delve into furniture design. In the late 1950s, he started a small factory, producing hand-carved desks, armchairs, dining room tables, decorative boxes and bowls, and serveware. The popularity of Shoemaker’s furnishings grew throughout Mexico, and his small factory became the Señal S.A. company, employing more than 100 skilled artisans and carpenters.
Shoemaker’s handcrafted designs were essentially a mid-century modern interpretation of traditional Mexican household furnishings, and like Clara Porset — an unsung Cuban-born activist, writer and designer who drew on Mexican craft traditions in her concepts for furniture — he found inspiration in his adopted country. These influences can be seen in iconic Shoemaker originals like the Sling collection of seating, the Suspension stool and several of his table designs.
Shoemaker's furniture was exhibited in showrooms in several major Mexican cities and across the U.S., including Houston, Chicago, and Los Angeles. (And mid-century modernist ideas that traveled between Mexico and California didn’t make one-way trips — they bounced back and forth.)
After Shoemaker died in 1990, his son George took over Señal S.A. The company closed after George’s death in the early 2000s.
Shoemaker’s Mexican modern furnishings continue to be coveted by avid furniture collectors around the world. From 2016 to 2017, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City dedicated a retrospective exhibition to honoring his work.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of vintage Don S. Shoemaker desks, seating, decorative objects and serveware.
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