Description
New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1963
American black walnut, hickory
Single-board seat
Inscribed with client's name
H: 30, W: 97 1/2, D: 28 in.
Note
This lot is sold with a digital copy of the original order card from George Nakashima, Woodworker.
Literature
Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton, Craft in America, pp. 58-59
Derek Ostergard, George Nakashima: Full Circle, pp. 156-157
George Nakashima, studio catalogue, c. 1969, unpaginated
George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree, p.151, 164-165
James A. Michener Art Museum, George Nakashima and the Modernist Moment, pp. 34-35
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, p. 176
The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, George Nakashima: A Master's Furniture and Philosophy, pp. 18-19
Provenance
Commissioned directly from George Nakashima
Thence by descent
Property from a Private Pennsylvania Collection