couch, the george nakashima lounge chairs, george nakashima table lamp. >> to her, it was like, "you're,000 is bid. $4,500 i have. fair warning... >> once she talked through it with me... >> sold. $7,000. >> ...she realizes it was a very good thing. >> yeah, it's bittersweet. i mean, he meant a lot to me. and he was a self-made guy. you know, he came from that greatest generation. >> the auction yields almost $400,000, a new standard of value for the works of george nakashima. i guess ed bennett knew what he was doing, lugging all that furniture from one house to the next. the bennett family's strange inheritance -- born in the forests of pennsylvania, given a second life by the hands of a master craftsman, then witness to decades of happy family life -- is shipped off to collectors around the world, treasured now as high art. george nakashima was right -- each tree does have its own destiny. and one tree's destiny will be to rock to sleep another generation of bennetts. it's the one thing ed's daughter keeps for herself. >> my dad had a rocking chair here that i really liked, with a fr