| 词条 | George Nakashima |
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Early lifeNakashima was born in 1905 in Spokane, Washington, to Katsuharu and Suzu Nakashima. He enrolled in the University of Washington program in architecture, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) about 1929. In 1931, after earning a master's degree in architecture from M.I.T.,[2] Nakashima sold his car and purchased a round-the-world tramp steamship ticket. He spent a year in France living the life of a bohemian, and then went on to North Africa and eventually to Japan. While in Japan, Nakashima went to work for Antonin Raymond, an American architect who had collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel. While working for Raymond, Nakashima toured Japan extensively, studying the subtleties of Japanese architecture and design. During this period he met Marion Okajima, who would become his wife.[2]. While working for Raymond, Nakashima worked as the project architect for the Golconde Dormitory in Puducherry, India, supervising construction from 1937-39 and immersing himself in the spiritual teachings of the sect.[3] Woodworking{{external media | width = 210px | align = right | video1 =[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/12/baltimore-md/appraisals/1971-george-nakashima-conoid-bench--200701A02 1971 George Nakashima Conoid Bench], 3:40| video2 =[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/14/madison-wi/appraisals/nakashima-trestle-table-sketch-ca-1956--200903A02 George Nakashima Walnut Trestle Table & Sketch, ca. 1955], 2:58 | video3 =[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/18/boise-id/appraisals/1974-george-nakashima-end-table--201304A24 1974 Signed George Nakashima End Table], 3:05, all on Antiques Road Show, PBS }} In 1937, Raymond's company was commissioned to build a dormitory at an ashram in Puducherry, India for which Nakashima was the primary construction consultant. It was here that Nakashima made his first furniture.[2] In 1940 Nakashima returned to America, and began to make furniture and teach woodworking in Seattle. Like others of Japanese ancestry, he was interned during the Second World War and sent to Camp Minidoka in Hunt, Idaho, in March 1942. At the camp he met Gentaro (sometimes spelled Gentauro) Hikogawa, a man trained in traditional Japanese carpentry. Under his tutelage, Nakashima learned to master traditional Japanese hand tools and joinery techniques. Perhaps more significant, he began to approach woodworking with discipline and patience, striving for perfection in every stage of construction.[1] Nakashima's signature woodworking design was his large-scale tables made of large wood slabs with smooth tops but unfinished natural edges, consisting of multiple slabs connected with butterfly joints. New Hope inspirationIn 1943, Antonin Raymond successfully sponsored Nakashima’s release from the camp and invited him to his farm in New Hope, Pennsylvania. In his studio and workshop at New Hope, Nakashima explored the organic expressiveness of wood and choosing boards with knots and burls and figured grain. He designed furniture lines for Knoll, including the Straight Back Chair (which is still in production), and Widdicomb-Mueller as he continued his private commissions. The studio grew incrementally until Nelson Rockefeller commissioned 200 pieces for his house in Pocantico Hills, New York, in 1973.[1] Drawing on Japanese designs and shop practices, as well as on American and International Modern styles, Nakashima created a body of work that would make his name synonymous with the best of 20th century American Art furniture. LegacyNakashima's home, studio, and workshop near New Hope, Pennsylvania, was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places[4] in August 2008; six years later the property was also designated a National Historic Landmark. In June 2015, the site received a "Keeping It Modern" grant from the Getty Foundation to create a solid conservation plan as a model approach for the preservation of historic properties.[5] One of Nakashima's workshops, located in Takamatsu City, Japan, currently houses a museum and gallery of his works. The Nakashima Foundation for Peace, currently housed in the Minguren Museum in New Hope, had its beginnings in 1984. In 1984, George Nakashima had the opportunity to purchase the largest and finest walnut log he had ever seen and sought to use the immense planks to their fullest potential. He dreamed then that if Altars for Peace were made for each continent of the world, as centers for meditation, prayer, and activities for peace, the world would be a better place. Over the past decade, his furniture has become ultra-collectible and his legacy of what became known as the "free-edge" aesthetic influential. Today the Nakashima business makes standard wooden furniture and continues to create more peace altars,[6] soon to complete Nakashima's legacy. To do so the company has procured yet another extremely valuable walnut log that almost matches the size and magnificence of the original. See also
References1. ^1 2 Moonan, Wendy. "Antiques: A Reverence For Wood And Nature", The New York Times, November 7, 2003. 2. ^1 2 Designboom website; biography of George Nakashima 7 02; {{cite web |url=http://www.designboom.com/portrait/nakashima_bio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-07-08 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326194616/http://www.designboom.com/portrait/nakashima_bio.html |archivedate=2014-03-26 |df= }} retvd 8 8 14 3. ^https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/golconde-the-first-modernist-building-in-india/ 4. ^https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=fa0c832a-24d5-4786-a2e0-328a46f4110e 5. ^http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-foundation-awards-14-new-grants-for-keeping-it-modern/ 6. ^https://www.incollect.com/articles/altars-for-peace-the-legacy-of-george-nakashima
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