There are w few woodworkers that are so revered as George Nakashima.
He was a Japanese-American woodworker who use great slabs of wood in their most natural state to combine them with the foundation that creates a chair or a table or a desk.
This is one of the rooms in his home. His trademark addition is a butterfly joint to stabilizes wood. While they are necessary to stop wood from cracking apart as it ages, they are also beautiful.
His daughter continues his work at their Pennsylvania home. A more complete picture can be found at their website: http://www.nakashimawoodworker.com/ from which I borrowed the photos as an example to help educate those people who pass by the blog.
What the Nakashima's imbue their work with the Zen-like lines that are calm and natural. We are blessed the such a talented woodworker lived among us. We are also indebted to his daughter, Mira who carries on in her father's tradition while moving forward into the 21st century.
This is one of the rooms in his home. His trademark addition is a butterfly joint to stabilizes wood. While they are necessary to stop wood from cracking apart as it ages, they are also beautiful.
His daughter continues his work at their Pennsylvania home. A more complete picture can be found at their website: http://www.nakashimawoodworker.com/ from which I borrowed the photos as an example to help educate those people who pass by the blog.
What the Nakashima's imbue their work with the Zen-like lines that are calm and natural. We are blessed the such a talented woodworker lived among us. We are also indebted to his daughter, Mira who carries on in her father's tradition while moving forward into the 21st century.
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