Historic Preservation

We are truly honored that the Nakashima complex is designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the World Monument Fund watch list. The Nakashima Foundation for Peace is entrusted with the care of the collection of furniture, as well as the 15 modernist structures that George Nakashima built on the property. These beautiful buildings combine International style and Modernist influences with Japanese carpentry traditions. They feature innovative structural elements, like thin shell conoidal and hyperbolic paraboloid roofs, and materials including wood, reinforced concrete, plywood, and stone. They are historically important and require specialized maintenance and preservation attention. 

Making a contribution  to the Nakashima Foundation for Peace carries out the gift of serenity for generations to come. On visiting our grounds, many are overcome by a sense of peaceful beauty generated not just by the atmosphere created by the buildings and landscape themselves, but by the harmony of the furniture within them. Your support makes the many necessary restoration and preservation projects on our complex possible, allowing us to train a new generation in the craft of architectural restoration. —Mira Nakashima