{"id":10000786,"date":"2019-02-11T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/?p=10000786"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:28:07","slug":"design-talks-george-nakashima-design-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/2019\/02\/11\/design-talks-george-nakashima-design-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Talks: George Nakashima Design Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

George Nakashima design approach<\/em><\/strong> is all about how elements, style and history combine with each other. A combination of japanese and american design styles, George Nakashima\u2019s work is the proof that each and every single element of a piece of furniture is special on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As mentioned before, the combination of international styles with the modern influences of the Japanese craft traditions made George Nakashima one of the mid-twentieth century designer a significant force in the way people saw handcraftsmanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \"\"<\/a>\n\n\n\n

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Mostly known as an American woodworker, George Nakashima was also a furniture maker that was considered the father of the American craft movement in the 20th-century furniture design. An icon in the development of wood making in furniture, each piece had its own way and fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When mentioning the lifetime work of Nakashima, it\u2019s signature was \u2013 \u201cLarge-scale tables made of large wood slabs with smooth tops but unfinished natural edges, consisting of multiple slabs connected with butterfly joints\u201d\u00a0\u2013<\/em> Turning each piece of the American designer a one of a kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEach flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.\u201d \u2013 George Nakashima<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n \"Turner<\/a>\n\n\n\n

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A famous woodworker, George Nakashima has a powerful influence around the world with its design contributions. Each piece of design is a piece that wants to get the world in piece. This Altar of Peace was meant as a symbol where the designer dreamed that every continent around world have a safe harbor to gather around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Nakashima design approach is all about how elements, style and history combine with each other. A combination of japanese and american design styles, George Nakashima\u2019s work is the proof that each and every single element of a piece of furniture is special on its own. SEE ALSO: Design Talks: Angelo Lelli The Vintage Designer That Revolutionized Lighting Design Talks: Alvar Aalto\u2019s Pioneer Life & Greatest Works As mentioned before, the combination of international styles with the modern influences of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":10000804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,2776],"tags":[4457,4459,4458,4456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000803,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000786\/revisions\/10000803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10000804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delightfull.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}