Nearly 65 works by American designer George Nakashima, including about 20 items made by Nakashima Studio under the supervision of his daughter Mira, have been selected by PIASA to form an exclusive, monographic sale, on the occasion of their next Scandinavian v. Brazilian Designauction in Paris on 16 September 2015. The sale is something of a return to base for Nakashima, who studied in France as a young man, and reveals the tremendous diversity and originality of his work.
The important ensemble showcases some of George Nakashima’s most outstanding designs, many in walnut. Highlights include a unique chest-ofdrawers from 1963 (est. €30,000-40,000), a bench from 1975 imbued with the refinement so typical of Nakashima’s work (est. €20,000-30,000), or also the coffee table Double Minguren I dated 1970 (est.€30,000-40,000). Connoisseurs will also be enthralled by a long chair dated 1947 (est. €60,000-80,000) that bears witness to the inspiration Nakashima derived from the pure forms of European Modernism. George Nakashima was born in the United States in 1905. After graduating in Architecture at the University of Washington in 1929, he studied at the Ecole Américaine des BeauxArts in Fontainebleau and in Paris he discovered the work in progress of Le Corbusier, which made a deep impression on him.
