Under his tutelage, Nakashima learned to master traditional Japanese hand tools and joinery techniques. At the camp he met Gentaro (sometimes spelled Gentauro) Hikogawa, a man trained in traditional Japanese carpentry. He was interned during the Second World War, like others of Japanese ancestry, being sent to Camp Minidoka in Hunt, Idaho, in March 1942. In 1940, Nakashima returned to America and began to make furniture and teach woodworking in Seattle. It was here that Nakashima made his first furniture. In 1937, Raymond's company was commissioned to build a dormitory at an ashram in Puducherry, India for which Nakashima was the primary construction consultant. 1955, 2:58ДЎ974 Signed George Nakashima End Table, 3:05, all on Antiques Road Show, PBS George Nakashima Walnut Trestle Table & Sketch, ca. They were kept in production in limited numbers at the institute by referring to the detailed drawings and instructions left by Nakashima, until about 1975, when Sarabhai stepped down. He spent three weeks in NID's wood workshop, designing chairs, benches, tables, ottomans, lounges, daybeds, shelves and mirror frames. In 1964, Gira Sarabhai, invited Nakashima to Ahmedabad. While working for Raymond, Nakashima worked as the project architect for the Golconde Dormitory in Puducherry, India, supervising construction from 1937 to 1939 and immersing himself in the spiritual teachings of the Aurobindo sect. During this period he met Marion Okajima, who would become his wife. While working for Raymond, Nakashima toured Japan extensively, studying the subtleties of Japanese architecture and design. While in Japan, Nakashima went to work for Antonin Raymond, an American architect who had collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright on the Imperial Hotel. He spent a year in France living the life of a bohemian, and then went on to North Africa and eventually to Japan. In 1931, after earning a master's degree in architecture from M.I.T., Nakashima sold his car and purchased a round-the-world tramp steamship ticket. He enrolled in the University of Washington program in architecture, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture ( B.Arch) in 1929. Nakashima was born in 1905 in Spokane, Washington, to Katsuharu and Suzu Nakashima.

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