George Nakashima Slab Coffee Table

Japanese American architect, father of the American craft movement, George Nakashima is among the first generation of studio furniture makers and is cited as highly influential to the field of contemporary woodworking. He mainly worked with wood waste and offcuts. Nakashima created asymmetrical forms with fluid contours preserving all the imperfection of the tree he used and turned the defects into stylistic peculiarities. His inspirations include the Japanese tea ceremony, American Shaker furniture and the Zen Buddhist ideals of beauty.