Mira Nakashima
Oval Minguren I Dining Table, 1993
Material: Cherry, Rosewood
Signed “Mira Nakashima Nov 30 1993, Best Wishes!”
An Oval Minguren I Dining Table by Mira Nakashima which features a cherry top joined by three rosewood butterflies. The table’s ovular top form is highly unique in the vernacular of both George and Mira Nakashima.
Additionally, the unique top’s distinction is further heightened by interaction of the center seam which unites the sap edges of each slab.
Designed c. 1965, the Minguren I Table is noted as “one of the most remarkably balanced of Nakashima’s designs” (‘George Nakashima Full Circle’, Derek E. Ostergard, 1989, p.128).
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 | 60.25 × 42.75 × 28.5 in |
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| Date | 1993 |
| Material | cherry, Rosewood |
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