George Nakashima
5ft Double Sliding Door Cabinet, 1960
Material: American Black Walnut
A Double Sliding Door Cabinet by George Nakashima featuring a front free edge on the cabinet’s top, solid doors, an interior bank of drawers, and adjustable interior shelves.
The work features Nakashima’s signature exposed, handworked dovetail joinery along the juncture of the top and sides of the cabinet.
At the time of its design, George Nakashima referred to this style of sliding door cabinet as “Chest with Sliding Trays”.
George Nakashima was born in Spokane, Washington in 1905 to Japanese parents who had immigrated to the United States. Educated and trained as an architect at the University of Washington, Nakashima received his Master’s degree in Architecture from M.I.T. in 1930. After working briefly as an architect in the United States he left for Paris seeking the creative energies of one of the great urban centers of the day. From there he traveled extensively, ending up at the home of his grandmother, living on a farm on the outskirts of Tokyo.
| Dimensions | 60 × 21.5 × 32 in |
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| Date | 1960 |
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| Material | American black walnut |
