Indeed, Robert Aibel of Moderne Gallery in Philadelphia, a leading gallery for American Studio Craft Furniture, remembers buying a Nakashima dining table and chairs in 1985 for $3000 from a doctor who referred to it as used furniture. Aibel had an instinct that there was a market out there, however, and, slowly, the market rebuilt, until the dizzying heights of the early 2000s, when, in December 2006, at Sothebys New York, a beautifully patterned, wildly irregular table made from a single cross-section slice of redwood burl, created by Nakashima in 1988 for his patrons, Dr
It has a great look and feel
My favorite thing about the shop is the products they have
Cigarettes dangled ubiquitously from the lips of battle-weary Soldiers, of cartoon characters in Stars & Stripes like Bill Mauldins Willy and Joe, and of American wounded laid out on stretchers in movie newsreels, newspapers, and Life magazine