The long sides are held by bolts in a typical flat pack furniture joint. This is normally fine and strong enough, although ideally there should be a half moon washer/nut instead of just a regular hex nut.

However, the bolts are too long, bottoming out in the hole and forcing the side and leg apart instead of clamping them together.

Fixed with a long drill bit, making room for the tip of the bolt.

Must've come from the CBA furniture factory! :)

Now the other side. Dry join, you can see where I dug the pins out that obviously couldn't hold a table leg, see elongated holes.

The other two holes below the mortise are from where someone tried to patch it with an angle bracket and screws. That didn't work either.

Ah well, clamped back together with some PU glue.

So much of what we think of when it comes to modern wooden furniture was his invention. It might even seem cliche now, but it's other people paying homage, copying, or ripping off George Nakashima. Bark inclusions? Him. Butterflies in checks in the wood? Him. Using the natural edges, using burled wood, book matching slabs, embracing the flaws? All George Nakashima. He loved trees, he loved wood, he loved furniture. A damn legend.

And here's the Conoid cantilevered chair of Nakashima's design. His contemporary furniture makers declared that it wouldn't work. They were wrong—its failure rate was much lower than other designs. And it slides easily, even on thick carpet. George Nakashima had advanced engineering degrees on top of being a soulful designer and craftsman. He didn't play.

Also, like his other furniture, it's a very very comfortable chair

I've been anticipating this stop for months, and it didn't disappoint: the George Nakashima Memorial Museum. Nakashima was a Spokane, WA born Japanese-American, internment camp survivor, and one of the best wood furniture designers of the 20th century. It's a small museum, but absolutely packed with his achievements. Here's his signature on a beam of the building that has become the museum