Architect turned woodworker whose New Hope, Pennsylvania studio made the live edge famous: tables that keep the tree's own contour, knots and butterfly-keyed cracks as the design. Interned with other Japanese Americans during the war, he learned traditional Japanese joinery in the camp and built a practice around honoring, in his phrase, the soul of a tree. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker and architect.
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