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Sam Maloof obit.
RIP to one of the great craftsmen. I remember dragging my wife (before we were married) to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston years ago just to look at a furniture exhibit, which contained some of his works.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sam-maloof23-2009may23,0,3907018.story
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05-23-2009, 07:38 AM
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Kind of happy just to know there are fellow Pelicans who know who Sam Maloof was!
Amazing craftsman and artist.
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I love his use of wood joinery (i.e. not the nailed/screwed/glued crap that's so common today). There's such beauty in those details. Sad loss for the world.
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05-23-2009, 08:24 AM
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Sam Maloof was a true American treasure. I watched a program about Sam a while back and he really came across as a quality person.
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05-23-2009, 08:46 AM
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That's a bummer. I have a t-shirt signed by him.
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He literally lived just up the road from me in Alta Loma...I once enquired about have him make a Chest to house my Alan Adler flatware set...that would have been an unbeatable combination of two of the most renowned craftsman of their era.
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05-23-2009, 11:26 AM
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We lost a true craftsman. RIP, Sam Maloof.
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05-23-2009, 12:36 PM
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I have seen a few of his pieces in person. He was the master of design and technique. Next to him is John Nyquist.
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05-23-2009, 04:31 PM
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I just sold my wood shop and was thinking of Sam the other day. What a loss, but what an example of how to live. I wonder how many others out there, that we do not know about, are carrying on his values and traditions. RIP old wise one.
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