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GEORGE NAKASHIMA WOODWORKER, NEW HOPE, PA 1955 Studio Promotional Poster and Pricelist ”Show-Room Open 1 to 4:30 p. m. Saturdays” [George Nakashima Woodworker]: GEORGE NAKASHIMA WOODWORKER, NEW HOPE, PA. New Hope, PA: George Nakashima Woodworker, May 1955. Original 27.75 x 21-inch, two-color Poster folded into sixths [as issued/mailed] with original studio price list with rubber stamped price addendum. Mild wear to folds, but a nearly fine, fresh example. 27.75 x 21-inch, two-color Poster and a printed 14 x 9 single fold pricelist with a rubber stamped price addendum: “Due to increase in manufacturer’s prices, please add 10% to all foam rubber prices.” Poster presumably designed in-house at the Conoid Studio and features an introductory text by Nakashima, Notes on the Care of Furniture, multiple halftone photo re[roductions, and sketchbook illustrations of various studio furniture pieces. Price list includes wood choices and dimensions for the following pieces: New Chair, Grass Seated Chair, Arm Chair, Mira Chair, High Mira Chair, Lounge Chair, Cushion Chair Frame, Sette Frame, Grass Eated Stool, Ottoman Frame, Long Chair, Wohl End Table, Wepman End Table, Plank Stool, Rectangular End Table, Bench With Back, Long Coffee Table, Bench, Slab Coffeee Table, Plank Dining Table, Plank Dining Table, Round Dining Table, Day-Bed Frame, Desk Single Pedestal, Desk Double Pedestal, Small Chest, Double Chest, Sliding Door Chest, Radio-Phonograph Cabinet, Panel Headboard, Storage Headboard, Slatted Headboard, and Hanging Wall Case. “There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man,” said George Nakashima, intoning the philosophy undergirding his world-renowned woodworking practice. As one of the great designers and craftsmen of the twentieth century, George Nakashima’s home, studio and creative compound in New Hope, Pennsylvania, is both a testament to his unique vision and the venerable workspace where he created furniture designed to bring nature into the modern home. George Nakashima (1905 – 1990) was born in Spokane, Washington, although he went on to live “almost every place else,” including Japan, France and India. In spite of his cosmopolitanism, much of his practice is indebted to the verdant environment of the Pacific Northwest. According to Mira Nakashima—not only the daughter and sole heir to George Nakashima’s legacy, but also the head of the contemporary Nakashima Woodworkers enterprise and a designer in her own right—“It was a Boy Scout leader who inspired him to go on these long hikes and camping trips. It was beautiful, and he fell in love with trees then and there.” In school at the University of Washington, Nakashima studied forestry before transferring to the architectural department after two years. His inimitable talent garnered him a scholarship to Harvard, which he then transferred to M.I.T. Upon graduating, he worked for Antonin Raymond—a disciple of Cass Gilbert and Frank Lloyd Wright, who combined Japanese building techniques with American technical innovations—in New York and Paris before Tokyo, designing interiors for the firm’s various projects. “Dad wasn’t happy with the disintegration of the [architectural] process,” says Mira. “When he came back to this country, he saw Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings under construction and thought that they hadn’t been designed, or executed very well.” As a result, Nakashima decided to devote himself to furniture, a discipline that would not require him to forfeit control of any aspect of production. “He turned to furniture because he thought of it as architecture in a microcosm.” When the bombing of Pearl Harbor heralded the U.S. entry into World War II, Nakashima was interred, along with tens of thousands of other Japanese Americans, in an internment camp. While there, Nakashima made the most of the experience by training and collaborating with a Japanese woodworker using scrap supplies to create his some of his earliest designs. “I still have a box he made for me when we were in camp,” adds Mira. With the sponsorship of his former employer, Nakashima was able to extricate himself from the camp in 1943, and moved to stay with Raymond at his farm in New Hope. Since Raymond was working on government contracts as part of the allied war effort, Nakashima was relegated to chicken farming, having been forbidden from practicing architecture by the U.S. government. It was during that time that “he realized there was an artist’s community, the so-called New Hope Impressionists” and began making preparations to launch his furniture career from New Hope after the war. “I think he thought it was kind of prophetic that the place was called ‘New Hope,’” Mira speculates. “He basically had nothing to lose by staying here, so he stayed.” With few resources, Nakashima had to rely on his architectural training to provide a roof for his family. Each one of the fourteen buildings that make up the compound today was hand-built by Nakashima over the course of the next thirty years. “The first building was the shop. Dad found this land on a south-facing slope and he didn’t have the money to buy it, so he bartered labor as payment for his first three acres. He knew that the only way he could make a living was to make a shop first. Then my mother and I needed a place to stay so he built the house second, around 1946. All this was done on a very limited budget—most of the early buildings are made with concrete block and corrugated transite.” With his studio established, Nakashima soon entered into a working relationship with Knoll, a promising but then less than a decade-old company. It was Raymond who arranged the initial introductions between Hans Knoll and Nakashima. “There’s a picture of Helen Belluschi [Jens Risom’s daughter] and me with our fathers down at Raymond farms,” says Mira of the meeting. Although an enduring skeptic of mass-production, Nakashima created two original designs for Knoll in 1946—with orders originally fulfilled by Nakashima Studios, before being manufactured by Knoll out of its East Greenville facility. Nakashima retained the rights to produce the table and chair himself at a customer’s request. “So there are actually two lines, one that’s handmade and one that’s manufactured by Knoll.” Nakashima’s designs represent the nexus of various craft-based traditions, ranging from American Shaker design to traditional Japanese joinery. Among his many celebrated forms, Nakashima Tables are cherished for their live-edge, naturalistic surface positioned atop a man-made architectural base, united in harmony. His most well-known chairs are modernist interpretations of the classic Windsor chair, with walnut seats and contrasting hickory spindles. “The fact that he actually retained a tree’s shape and color and used the original form as part of his creative process made him something of a Japanese druid,” Mira explains, “some might call these details ‘imperfections,’ but for him it was as if the tree was speaking. He was very much a part of the old Arts and Crafts movement, or the Mingei movement in Japan: hand-crafted goods, natural materials, slow processes. Some things just take time and are better because they take time; if you try to do them fast, they’re no good. He was very much aware of that quality.” In subsequent years, as Nakashima became more and more of a household name, the property’s buildings became proportionally more architecturally inventive. Inspired by an architectural engineer he had met, Nakashima began experimenting with thin-shell construction and hyperbolic paraboloid shells. He was able to finance these more ambitious endeavors using money generated from increasingly high-profile commissions, including the Rockefeller Residential house. In 1990, George Nakashima passed away, and Mira promptly picked up where her father left off, continuing to produce her father’s classic designs while simultaneously developing her own novel ones. “We had a three-year backlog of orders, huge piles of wood and I decided it was too good to waste.” Many of the craftsman currently working at Nakashima Woodworkers trained directly under George Nakashima for many years. “Dad used to say that the men in the shop, with all their skill and capabilities, were actually his hands,” Mira recalls, adding, “he worked through them.” It appears the shop operates only slightly differently today. “The only difference is that when I change a line, I voice why I feel it should be changed. Dad would just do it.”[from The Soul of a Tree via Knoll] Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. 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