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Maloof, Sam [1916-2009. USA. Furniture Designer]

 

Samuel Solomon Maloof [commonly known as Sam Maloof] was born to Lebanese immigr… subscribers only


Photograph of Sam Maloof in one of his rocking chairs

Photograph of Sam Maloof in one of his rocking chairs


Bibliography

1. Adamson, Jeremy. The furniture of Sam Maloof. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001

2. Cooke. Edward S. Jr.; Ward, Gerald W.R.; and L’Ecuyer, Kelly H. The maker’s hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990. Boston, Massachusetts: MFA Publications, 2003 [Published to accompany the exhibition ‘The maker’s hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, 2003-04]

3. Fitgerald, Oscar P. Studio furniture of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum East Petersburg, Pennsylvania: Fox Chaapel Publishing, 2008

4. New handmade furniture: American furniture makers working in hardwood. New York, NY: American Craft Museum, 1979 [Exhibition catalogue]

5. Ramljak, Suzanne. Crafting a legacy: contemporary American crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002 [Exhibition catalogue]

6. Sam Maloof, woodworker Tokyo: Kodansha International 1983

7. Woodenworks: furniture objects by five contemporary craftsmen. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institution, 1972 [Exhibition catalogue]

Weblinks

Arab American Artists 

Artnet 

Craft in America 

enctclopedia.design 

Fine Woodworking 

Janet Eastman. ‘Sam Maloof dies at 93; designer and builder of simple, beautiful furniture’ LA Times 23 May 2009 

Jonathan Fairbanks. ‘Sam Maloof’. The Guardian 1 June 2009 

Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery 

Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Oral history interview with Sam Maloof, 2002 Jan. 10-11 

The official Web site of the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts 

Wikipedia 

William Grimes. ‘Sam Maloof, Furniture Craftsman, Dies at 93’ The New York Times 17 May 2009 

YouTube. Handmade in America: Sam Maloof, 1983 

YouTube. Legendary Furniture Maker Sam Maloof 

YouTube. Maloof100 

YouTube. Sam Maloof - My Last Days 

YouTube. Sam Maloof and the Arts at University of La Verne 

YouTube. Sam Maloof: "And that's the arm" 

YouTube. Sam Maloof: "And the chair's completed" 

YouTube. Sam Maloof: "The Boston Rocker" 

See: 3 Records for Maloof, Sam in DAR