George Nakashima, Exceptional Plank Headboard

New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1974
Curly maple, American black walnut
Single-board plank with one butterfly, the vertical support columns cut to create separate leg/base section, with post-production hooks for wall mounting of headboard
Base inscribed with client's name
H: 45, W: 119 1/2, D: 3 in.

Note
This lot is sold with a digital copy of the original pencil-sketched preparatory drawing for the present lot, signed and dated by George Nakashima and in which Nakashima notes, "This is a magnificent piece of curly maple burl - considerably wider than we usually use for this purpose."

Literature
George Nakashima, studio catalogue, unpaginated
Mira Nakashima, Nature, Form & Spirit, p. 112 (related example illustrated)

Commissioned directly from George Nakashima

Thence by descent

Property from a Private Pennsylvania Collection

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George Nakashima, Exceptional Plank Headboard

Commissioned directly from George Nakashima

Thence by descent

Property from a Private Pennsylvania Collection

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