Mike Johnson worked under the famous furniture-maker out of college. Fifteen years after Maloof’s death, Johnson is still at work. Columnist David Allen visits.

Sam Maloof, 93, a designer and woodworker whose furniture was prized for its simplicity and practicality by Southern Californian homeowners in the 1950s and later valued for its beauty and ...

GUEST: These are two Sam Maloof walnut woven benches... that I obtained from my aunt and uncle's estate. My uncle was a renowned, uh, modernist architect in Riverside, California.

Presented jointly by the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery and the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation, this one-day symposium in celebration of Sam Maloof’s centennial birth year will ...