George Nakashima Katsutoshi (May 24th, 1905 - June 15th, 1990) was a carpenter, architect and manufacturer of Japanese-American furniture that was one of the leading innovators of the 20th century furniture design and the father of the American craft movement .
Nakashima was born in 1905 in Spokane, Washington, and Suzu Katsuharu Nakashima.
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George Nakashima Katsutoshi (May 24th, 1905 - June 15th, 1990) was a carpenter, architect and manufacturer of Japanese-American furniture that was one of the leading innovators of the 20th century furniture design and the father of the American craft movement .
Nakashima was born in 1905 in Spokane, Washington, and Suzu Katsuharu Nakashima.
Nakashima went to work for Antonin Raymond, an American architect who had worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel. While working for Raymond, Nakashima Japan tour a lot, studying the intricacies of Japanese architecture and design.
In 1937, Raymond company was commissioned to build a dormitory at an ashram in Pondicherry, India where Nakashima was the consultant of the primary construction. This is where Nakashima made his first furniture.
In 1940 Nakashima returned to America and began to make furniture and teach woodworking in Seattle until his death in 1990.
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