George Nakashima
5ft Double Sliding Door Cabinet, 1960
American Black Walnut
152.5 x 54.6 x 81.5 cm
60 x 21 1/2 x 32 1/8 in
60 x 21 1/2 x 32 1/8 in
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A Double Sliding Door Cabinet by George Nakashima featuring a front free edge on the cabinet’s top, solid doors, an interior bank of drawers, and adjustable interior shelves. The work...
A Double Sliding Door Cabinet by George Nakashima featuring a front free edge on the cabinet’s top, solid doors, an interior bank of drawers, and adjustable interior shelves.
The work features Nakashima’s signature exposed, handworked dovetail joinery along the juncture of the top and sides of the cabinet.
At the time of its design, George Nakashima referred to this style of sliding door cabinet as “Chest with Sliding Trays”
Provenance
Commissioned for Robert Mellen of VirginiaModerne Gallery
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