Why We Make Things and Why it Matters by Peter Korn

Author:Peter Korn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473520684
Publisher: Random House

The Genesis of Studio Craft

Although I began making furniture in a vacuum, it wasn’t long before someone sent me a catalog of the 1972 “Woodenworks” exhibition, which had recently been presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. It featured work by five leading furniture makers who are today considered founding fathers of contemporary studio furniture. These were Arthur Espenet Carpenter (1920–2006), Wendell Castle (1932–), Wharton Esherick (1887–1970), George Nakashima (1905–1990), and Sam Maloof (1916–2009). To a neophyte, they seemed impossibly remote, Promethean elders. Yet the woodworking universe was so thinly populated that within a decade I would assist Carpenter and Maloof in teaching summer workshops, an association in which they assumed decidedly mortal proportions.

Sam Maloof outside Anderson Ranch woodshop, circa 1986.

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