Summary: | The mid-twentieth-century woodworker Sam Maloof - one of the leading figures in the postwar studio furniture movement in America - was a voracious collector with an abiding generosity toward other artists. The home that he and his wife, Alfreda, created for themselves in Alta Loma, California - hand-built in large part by Maloof himself - was filled with art, and it provided a gathering place for the richly diverse and closely interconnected art, craft, and design community. "The house that Sam built", companion book to the exhibition at the Huntington, chronicles the development of Maloof's work from his earliest explorations of handcrafted furniture in the 1950s to 1985. Exhibition: The Huntington, San Marino (24.9.2011-30.1.2012). [Includes works by Arthur Ames, Jean Goodwin Ames, Laura Andreson, Karl Benjamin, Aldo Casanova, Paul Darrow, Rupert Deese, Phil Dike, Betty Davenport Ford, Robert Frame, Susan Hertel, James Hueter, Emil Kosa, Roger Kuntz, Martha Longenecker, Sam Maloof, William Manker, Douglas McClellan, Henry Lee McFee, Harrision McIntosh, Gertrde and Otto Natzler, Richard Petterson, Kay Sekimachi, Millard Sheets, Paul Soldner, Aolbert Stewart, Marion Stewart, Bob Stocksdale, James Strombotne, John Svenson, Robert E. Wood, Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley, Ward Youry and Milford Zornes.]
|