[1] He knew from an early age that he wanted to be an artist, and studied drawing and painting at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston.
[1][5] McCobb came to prominence as a design and decorating consultant for Martin Feinman's Modernage Furniture in New York City in 1948.
Mesberg and McCobb would later be business partners in the Planner and Directional furniture lines.
[7] In 1955, he was married to Mary "Mollie" Frances Rogers, an interior designer.
[14] In 2021, the Johnson County Museum in Overland Park, Kansas, has held a posthumous exhibition, Paul McCobb: American Designer.