George Nakashima Single Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
George Nakashima Single Pedestal Desk Walnut splayed leg Desk 3 Drawer Pedestal Signed on the underside of desk, George Nakashima 1968 Original Clients name marked in Drawers with Cr...
Walnut
George Nakashima Double Pedestal Desk with Live-Edge Top
By George Nakashima Studio, George Nakashima
Located in Waalwijk, NL
George Nakashima for George Nakashima Studio, Double Pedestal Free-Edge writing desk, American black walnut, United States, 1969 You have encountered a truly outstanding example of ...
Walnut
George Nakashima Turned Wood Dowel Shape Leg Single Pedestal Small Desk Mint
By George Nakashima
Located in Rockaway, NJ
George Nakashima turned wood dowel shape leg single pedestal small desk mint with documents.
Walnut
Double Pedestal Desk by George Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in Sea Cliff, NY
Walnut free edge writing surface having several Rosewood butterflies and sap edges. Two pedestals with drawers supporting top. A beautiful and well balanced example of the form. Th...
Rosewood, Walnut
Double Pedestal Desk by George Nakashima, 1964
By George Nakashima
Located in Long Island City, NY
American Studio Movement desk by George Nakashima in black walnut. Double pedestal supports with three drawers with a curving and tapered top.
Walnut
George Nakashima Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Geroge Nakashima New Hope, Pennsylvania double pedestal desk in walnut and rosewood.
Walnut
George Nakashima Double Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in Amarillo, TX
George Nakashima double pedestal desk in cherry. George Nakashima Studios.
Cherry
George Nakashima Double Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A large example of this form with a boat-shaped top.
George Nakashima Double Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in Los Angeles, CA
George Nakashima (1905-1990) Nakashima Studios, Double Pedestal Desk.
Rosewood, Walnut
George Nakashima Walnut Double Pedestal Desk, 1977
By George Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
A Classic Nakashima desk both beautiful and functional with ample storage.
Walnut
George Nakashima, Walnut Pedestal Desk with Turned Legs, 1972
By George Nakashima Studio, George Nakashima
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
George Nakashima (1905-1990) Walnut Desk, 1972 with pedestal of one deep and two shallow drawers, raised on cross foot, to the left side and two turned legs to the right side free ed...
Walnut
George Nakashima Walnut Two Pedestal Desk, 1961
By George Nakashima Studio, George Nakashima
Located in Hamburg, PA
A George Nakashima black walnut Double Pedestal Desk. The desk was first made in 1955, this one was crafted in 1961.
Walnut
George Nakashima African Zebrawood & Walnut Double Pedestal Desk, USA 1986
By George Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent example of George Nakashima's work. Commissioned directly from the artist by the previous owner in 1985 and executed in 1986. The desk is signed and dated by George Nak...
Walnut, Zebra Wood
George Nakashima Rare Free-Edge Double Pedestal Desk in Walnut, 1950s
By George Nakashima
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Rare double pedestal desk with free edge top in walnut with rosewood butterfly on top by George Nakashima, American 1950's (name of client “COX” written in marker on bottom of top).
Rosewood, Walnut
George Nakashima Black Walnut Double Pedestal Desk, Signed and Dated
By George Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
A truly exceptional George Nakashima desk with incomparable details. It's size and drawer configuration make this desk as functional as it is beautiful.
Walnut
George Nakashima Early Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
George Nakashima single pedestal desk from 1954. Excellent condition with cherry drawers and stunning walnut top.
Rare George Nakashima Single Pedestal Desk, Widdicomb, 1950's
By George Nakashima, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Culver City, CA
This single pedestal, walnut desk was designed by George Nakashima as part os his Origins collection for Widdicomb.
Walnut
Double Pedestal Desk by George Nakashima
Located in Sagaponack, NY
Walnut slab top floats over three drawer cabinets.
Designed and made by George Nakashima Studio
Walnut
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H 28.75 in W 72.25 in D 37.41 in
George Nakashima, Walnut Pedestal Writing Table with Free Edge, 1965
By George Nakashima
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
George Nakashima, Walnut Pedestal Desk with Free Edge, 1965 This beautiful and useful desk is in superb condition, the large top has a straight edge to the front and a freeform back...
Walnut
Fine Geroge Nakashima Single Pedestal Desk
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful, dramatic grain, sets this desk apart from other works by George Nakashima.
Walnut
Free-Edge Double Pedestal Desk by George Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in Long Island City, NY
Free-edge double pedestal desk by George Nakashima in walnut with butterfly joinery on desk top.
Walnut
George Nakashima Double Pedestal Desk
By George Nakashima
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A great Nakashima double-pedestal desk. Full provenance accompanies.
A Walnut Double pedestal Desk by George Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in Sea Cliff, NY
An Excellent example of a rare form by George Nakashima. Thick Walnut top with sapping through out each board makes this desk have the look of a musical instrument.
Walnut Pedestal Desk with Credenza by George Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in Sea Cliff, NY
An extremely rare form having a free edge top supported by a three drawer pedestal and a full free edge cabinet. Sliding Walnut doors concealing four Oak adjustable shelves.
Oak, Walnut
George Nakashima "Single Pedestal" Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This George Nakashima desk is graced by particularly beautiful walnut. The plank which serves as the writing surface is gorgeously figured, and boasts two "free edges". Unusually, s...
Double Pedestal Desk By George Nakashima
Located in Sea Cliff, NY
American Studio Movement desk by George Nakashima.Two pedestals with three drawers in each, supporting a massive solid walnut top.
A master woodworker and M.I.T.-trained architect, George Nakashima was the leading light of the American Studio furniture movement. Along with Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof and Wendell Castle, Nakashima was an artisan who disdained industrial methods and materials in favor of a personal, craft-based approach to the design of chairs, coffee tables and other pieces. What sets Nakashima apart is the poetic style of his work, his reverence for wood and the belief that his furniture could evince — as he put it in the title of his 1981 memoir — The Soul of a Tree.
Born in Spokane, Washington, to Japanese immigrants, Nakashima traveled widely after college, working and studying in Paris, Japan and India, and at every stop he absorbed both modernist and traditional design influences.
The turning point in Nakashima’s career development came in the United States in 1942, when he was placed in an internment camp for Asian-Americans in Idaho. There, Nakashima met a master woodcarver who tutored him in Japanese crafting techniques. A former employer won Nakashima’s release and brought him to bucolic New Hope, Pennsylvania, where Nakashima set up a studio and worked for the rest of his life. (Master craftsperson Mira Nakashima keeps her father’s legacy alive at the George Nakashima Studio in New Hope today. She has been the artistic director of George Nakashima Woodworkers since her father's death, in 1990.)
Nakashima’s singular aesthetic is best captured in his custom-made tables and benches — pieces that show off the grain, burls and whorls in a plank of wood. He left the “free edge,” or natural contour, of the slab un-planed, and reinforced fissures in the wood with “butterfly” joints.
Almost all Nakashima seating pieces have smooth, milled edges. Nakashima also contracted with large-scale manufacturers to produce carefully supervised editions of his designs. Knoll has offered his Straight chair — a modern take on the spindle-backed Windsor chair — since 1946; the now-defunct firm Widdicomb-Mueller, the result of a merger between Widdicomb and Mueller Furniture, issued the Shaker-inspired Origins collection in the 1950s.
Nelson Rockefeller in 1973 gave Nakashima his single largest commission: a 200-piece suite for his suburban New York estate. Today, Nakashima furniture is collected by both the staid and the fashionable: his work sits in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as in the homes of Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Diane von Furstenberg and the late Steve Jobs.
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