In 1968, he retired from industry to become an independent sculptor, carving abstract organic forms and kinetic structures in wood.

[6] The Allentown Art Museum featured thirty of Dal Fabbro's works at a 1972 solo exhibition and added several to its permanent collections.

[4][10] Established in 1976, this award has gone to artists and performers like Willem de Kooning, Gabor Peterdi, Brian Torff, Nicholas Rinaldi, and Tina Weymouth.

McGraw Hill, John Murray, F. W. Dodge, Reinhold, Gorlich, and other presses published his books, which were released in Italy, Spain and England as well as the United States.

He regularly contributed to The New York Times and House & Garden[3] and wrote for Popular Science, McCall's, Mechanix Illustrated,[12] and the Encyclopædia Britannica,[13] coauthoring the section on furniture-making in a 1950s revision of the encyclopedia.

[14] Aimed at hobbyists as well as professional designers, Dal Fabbro's books received praise in the popular press.

Library Journal described his two-volume How to Build Modern Furniture as "invaluable reference material" with "easy to follow instructions.

"[18] Dal Fabbro's book Furniture for Modern Interiors (1954) also received coverage in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts[19] and Design Quarterly.