TY  - GEN
AU  - Nakashima, Mira
TI  - Nature form and spirit: the life and legacy of George Nakashima
SN  - 9780810945364
U1  - 745.2092-N 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Abrams
N2  - CONTENT
6	Acknowledgments
7	Preface
8	Introduction
11	The Nakashima Family
13	Nakashima's Youth
15	Nakashima and the Bauhaus
16	Life in Paris
18	Nakashima and Le Corbusier
20	Tokyo: The Firm of Antonin Raymond
22	The Mingei Movement and the Revival of Folk Art Tradition
25	Frank Lloyd Wright and the Arts and Crafts Movement
27	The Way of Tea
30	Church at Karuizawa
33	Nakashima and Sri Aurobindo
35	Golconde            
39	The Sources of Spirituality in Nakashima's Work
40	From India to Bucks County
62	Japanese Roots of Nakashima's Aesthetic
66	The Shaker Legacy
73	Nakashima and Knoll Studios
78	Nakashima's Catalogues
116	Theory and Practice
123	The Process of Furniture-making
136	Experiments in Thin-Shell Technology:
Conoids, Hypars, Barrel Vaults, and Cantilevers
162	Widdicomb-Mueller and Frenchman's Cove
172	The Conoid Line
182	Ben and Bernarda Shahn
188	I Go Out into the World
190	Nagare, Minguren, and Ahmedabad
208	Return to New Hope
214	The Rockefellers' Japanese House
218	Sacred Spaces, Scissors Trusses, and Adobe
236	Altars for Peace
243	Day's End
244	Lean Years
254	Nakashima Today
267	Chronology
271	Suggested Further Reading
272	Index
275	Glossary
275	Photograph Credits


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