Mira Nakashima
Pair of Special Swett Nightstands w/ “Kornblut” Base, 2019
Material: American Black Walnut
A pair of Special Swett Nightstands with a “Kornblut” base by Mira Nakashima.
This paired example is particularly interesting as it features a case typical of the 1960s Swett Nightstand design while swapping the traditional base for that of a Kornblut Case, another 1960s Nakashima design.
Each stand features an integrated drawer and a large storage compartment.
The pair of nightstands also feature Nakashima’s signature exposed, hand-worked dovetail joinery along the juncture of the top and sides of each case.
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 | 18 × 18 × 22 in |
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| Date | 2019 |
| Material | American black walnut |
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