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Posted May 17, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC
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Beautiful.
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Awesome!
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That's nice but this does not strike me as antique - more like r/mid_century.
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You’re close. It’s an eventual antique. Is a George Nakashima.
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Everything is an "eventual antique".
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Well one can argue fairly that George Nakashima began making these chairs in his teens which would of been in early 20s. So what now mod?
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No, one cannot.
In 1937, Raymond's company was commissioned to build a dormitory at an ashram in Puducherry, India for which Nakashima was the primary construction consultant. It was here that Nakashima made his first furniture.
In 1940, Nakashima returned to America and began to make furniture and teach woodworking in Seattle. He was interned during the Second World War, like others of Japanese ancestry, being sent to Camp Minidoka in Hunt, Idaho, in March 1942. At the camp he met Gentaro (sometimes spelled Gentauro) Hikogawa, a man trained in traditional Japanese carpentry. Under his tutelage, Nakashima learned to master traditional Japanese hand tools and joinery techniques. Perhaps more significantly, he began to approach woodworking with discipline and patience, striving for perfection in every stage of construction.
In 1943, Antonin Raymond successfully sponsored Nakashima's release from the camp a... In his studio and workshop at New Hope, Nakashima explored the organic expressiveness of wood and choosing boards with knots and burls and figured grain. He designed furniture lines for Knoll...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nakashima
His earliest Knoll designs appear to be post-war.
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