George Nakashima
Slab II Coffee Table, 1971
American black walnut highly figured, free-form single board top with large East Indian rosewood butterfly, 1971.
Made for Cliff Sutliffe, an associate of Paul Planert, Nakashima’s best interior design client. Planert and Sutliff used Nakashima in several Pittsburgh area universities, clubs and hundreds of residences.
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 | 46 × 37 × 12.5 in |
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| Date | 1971 |
