Maloof Chair

Oleh Jerry

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Sam Maloof, a designer and woodworker whose furniture was initially prized for its simplicity and practicality by Southern Californian homeowners in the 1950s and later valued for its beauty and timelessness by collectors, museum curators and U.S Mudar had long admired the famed furniture woodworker Sam Maloof and attended a Maloof workshop in 2001. Mudar asked Maloof directly if he could replicate the pattern for his rocking chairs. Maloof told him yes, but that he could never sell the chairs. Sam Maloof, 69, a California furniture-maker, was named recently by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to receive a tax-free grant of $300,000. Maloof, one of 25 recipients of cash awards, will receive the money in monthly installments over One luminary of this postwar creative environment was Sam Maloof, the Chino, Calif.-born son of Lebanese immigrants who earned, within his own lifetime, a reputation as perhaps America's greatest-ever furniture craftsman. The House That Sam Built The Alta Loma, Calif. — NEARLY 20 years ago, when woodworker Sam Maloof was struggling to chisel out enough chairs to pay his bills, a leading manufacturer offered him $22 million in advances and royalties to mass-produce his elegantly simple furniture. I continued to stare and take it in, speechless and curious at the same time. Sam Maloof is one of the most famous American furniture artists of our time. He passed away in 2009, and this chair came into the possession of the gallery owner, who was a .

The chair is similar to a design made famous by legendary woodworker Sam Maloof. “I made the arm slightly differed, there is a curve to it,” Rockey said. The chair was carved by hand from unstained, oil-finished cherry wood. “I like to have a finish "This is a huge, huge victory," the assemblyman said. Logue said he was contacted by a constituent from Truckee, Deborah Maloof, who runs a furniture store there. According to Logue, Maloof said a woman who works for the department came to her store and That show featured many studio furniture pieces including selections from Sam Maloof and Wendell Castle." Along with the image and anecdote, Cruce provided an all-important snapshot of the caption from the catalog; crediting the "Wearable Chair (1977)" to Furniture designer and craftsman Sam Maloof died late last month at the age of 93. A self-taught and self-described “woodworker,” Maloof handcrafted sculptural furniture that was a humane foil to minimalist architecture of the post-World War II era. .