George Nakashima Minguren II Coffee Table
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Historical Design
1980
American Black Walnut Wood
168 x 34 x 42 cm
66.1 x 13.4 x 16.5 in
Japanese American architect, father of the American craft movement, George Nakashima primarily considered a material to be used as a starting point of his designs. He mainly worked with wood waste and offcuts. The Coffee Table, Minguren II, presents the original patina and texture of the wooden material. Nakashima created asymmetrical forms with fluid contours preserving all the imperfection of the tree he used and turned the defects into stylistic peculiarities. His signature woodworking design is this large-scale table made of large wood slabs with a smooth top but unfinished natural edges, consisting of multiple slabs connected with butterfly joints.
Literature:
M. Nakashima, Nature, Form, & Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima, New York 2003, pp. 202-203.
G. Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree, A Woodworker's Reflections, Tokyo 1981, p. 117.
Artist
George Nakashima
George Nakashima (1905-1990) was an architect, designer and woodworker born in a Japanese family in the US. His career started in 1943 when he was released from a relocation camp during WW2 and started to practice furniture making full-time.
