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Moving Sam Maloof: Saving an American Woodworking Legend´s Home and Workshops
Ann Kovara
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Description for Moving Sam Maloof: Saving an American Woodworking Legend´s Home and Workshops
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 120 colour & b/w ilus. BIC Classification: AKR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 289 x 19. Weight in Grams: 944.
World-class woodworker Sam Maloof (1916-2009), the first craftsperson to receive a MacArthur Foundation grant, inhabited his family compound in Alta Loma, California, for 45 years until the State of California decided that a new highway was needed, and that the Maloof homestead was in the way. The result was the move, between 1998 and 2001, of the historic residence, two woodworking studios, guesthouse, and twenty trees to a new site three miles away. As it explores the human side of historic preservation, the book explains how Sam, a beleaguered but plucky elderly California Living Treasure and master woodworker, survives his ... Read more
World-class woodworker Sam Maloof (1916-2009), the first craftsperson to receive a MacArthur Foundation grant, inhabited his family compound in Alta Loma, California, for 45 years until the State of California decided that a new highway was needed, and that the Maloof homestead was in the way. The result was the move, between 1998 and 2001, of the historic residence, two woodworking studios, guesthouse, and twenty trees to a new site three miles away. As it explores the human side of historic preservation, the book explains how Sam, a beleaguered but plucky elderly California Living Treasure and master woodworker, survives his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764351365
SKU
V9780764351365
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Ann Kovara
Ann Kovara, AIA, LEED AP, was the Maloof Relocation Project's on-site construction manager. A multi-talented architect, she serves as the California High Speed Rail Program project architect.
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