George Nakashima Wood Furniture

George katsutoshi nakashima japanese.

George nakashima wood furniture. Tables desks chairs and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence. We strive to create the antiques of the future as a collaborative integrated process where designer and maker work hand in hand. On a farmlike compound near new hope pennsylvania george nakashima his family and fellow wood workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained rare timber. Founded by george nakashima we continue to custom mill sustainably harvested hardwoods and select the resulting planks individually for each project.

Carved from magnificent pieces of rich often rare wood his works are spare and elegant the result of a formal education in architecture as well as extensive exposure to european modernism eastern religious philosophy and japanese craft traditions. George nakashima furniture explores the dichotomy between strength and fragility. Along with wharton esherick sam maloof and wendell castle nakashima was an artisan who disdained industrial methods and materials in favor of a personal craft based approach to the design what sets nakashima apart is the poetic style of his work his reverence.