butikken shit interiør: 2017

Sam maloof

maloof

Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009)

Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009) was a furniture designer and woodworker, the first craftsman to receive a MacArthur fellowship. Maloof's work is in the collections of several major American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He was described by the N.Y. Times as "a central figure in the postwar American crafts movement.

Rocking chair

When you sit in his famous rocking chair (around $12,000 to buy one today), that looks like it would be to hard to sit in for long, you will never want to get up out of it. It wraps itself around your contours, no matter how tall or short, thin or wide you are, and just causes your whole body to relax. This is the only piece of his furniture that you will be allowed to sit in, and it's the absolute best. I never, ever would have thought anything made of hard wood could be so comfortable and such a joy to experience!