George Nakashima Woodworker: Preserving a Legacy
George Nakashima Woodworker is a custom furniture company located just outside Philadelphia in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, owned by siblings Mira and Kevin Nakashima. Founded by their father, George Nakashima (1905-1990), in 1947, the nine-acre site served as a kind of laboratory for integrated living, testing George’s concepts of “decentralization, intermediate technology and living off the land” while synthesizing his varied experiences in the Pacific Northwest, Japan, and India, among other places. Today, it continues as an active woodworking studio as well as a heritage center preserving George’s legacy.
Tours of the workshop and Nakashima property are offered on Saturdays, but for those of you who aren’t in the Philadelphia area, the video below really does a great job capturing the atmosphere of the Nakashima estate.
Via Tramnesia
