Important Design
Important Design
Property from an Important Private Collection
George Nakashima
"Greenrock" Coffee Table
Auction Closed
December 8, 09:48 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
George Nakashima
"Greenrock" Coffee Table
designed circa 1970s, executed 1990
executed by Mira Nakashima
East Indian rosewood
later signed with the present owner's name and dated October 17, 2001
16 x 43½ x 40¼ in. (40.6 x 110.6 x 102.6 cm)
Acquired directly from Nakashima Woodworkers by the present owner, 2001
Sotheby's would like to thank Mira Nakashima and David Long from Nakashima Woodworkers for their assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.
"The precious piece of rosewood that constitutes the top of the present table had been purchased by my father in the 1970s and was so expensive that he split it with our associates in Japan. Its design was originally created for then Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s “Japanese” home in Pocantico Hills, but the table itself was laid out and made by me after my father’s death in 1990. I do not recall whether my father had marked out butterflies on it in chalk as he sometimes did, but the final size and placement, as well as the base design were determined by me. The piece was exhibited twice in 1994, at Terri Gallery in New York and at our Minguren Museum in Pennsylvania."
Mira Nakashima
"The precious piece of rosewood that constitutes the top of the present table had been purchased by my father in the 1970s and was so expensive that he split it with our associates in Japan. Its design was originally created for then Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s “Japanese” home in Pocantico Hills, but the table itself was laid out and made by me after my father’s death in 1990. I do not recall whether my father had marked out butterflies on it in chalk as he sometimes did, but the final size and placement, as well as the base design were determined by me. The piece was exhibited twice in 1994, at Terri Gallery in New York and at our Minguren Museum in Pennsylvania."
Mira Nakashima