Mira Nakashima
Hidalgo Bed | King, 2013
Material: American Black Walnut
Platform: 80 x 77 x 10.25 in
Headboard: 88 at top/77 at platform x 3.75 x 43.25 in
A Hidalgo Bed platform and accompanying headboard by Mira Nakashima. The platform, itself, is a minimal, low-profile form comprised of two platform sections. The headboard compliments the platform’s linear form and introduces a dynamic interplay of vertical and horizontal forms.
Mira Shizuko Nakashima was born in Seattle, Washington, incarcerated with her family at Minidoka on the Idaho Desert and moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania in 1943. She attended school in Bucks County, graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1963, and received a Masters in Architecture from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1966, where she married one of her classmates. The family then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania until 1970, when she returned to work as her father’s assistant until his death in 1990.
| Dimensions | 80 × 88 × 43.25 in |
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| Date | 2013 |
| Material | American black walnut |
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