01.14.19
“As the Japanese tea ceremony takes place in absolute silence to calm and sharpen the mind, so in the Nakashima woodworking shop in New Hope , two hours from New York , wood is worked without saying a word. “A good craftsman does not speak because it could disturb the relationship with the raw material,” explains Mira Nakashima , daughter of architect George Nakashima , one of the most important names in American furniture of the twentieth century. “For my father, beauty was not a human artifact but something that came from the universe, from nature; the artist or the carpenter is just the means of it…”