Word: nakashima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work that has emerged from his small monastic enclave is the opposite of modern metal or glossy wood furniture. Nakashima involves himself totally, from the selection and first rough cutting of the logs to the final caress of the sandpaper. "There are a thousand intricacies and a thousand decisions," he says. "An old tree is unpredictable. It is a stirring moment when out of an inert mass drawn from nature, we set out to produce an object never before seen, an object that is useful, but with a lyric quality...
...Nakashima's forms follow nature. His famous coffee tables are made of planks sliced from the trunk or root systems of such trees as the redwood or Eng lish walnut. Their natural configuration remains unchanged. So do natural breaks in the wood, which Nakashima holds to gether with small pieces of wood shaped like butterflies...