The Furniture Maker Who Never Abandons a Piece

In 2019, master woodworker Sam Maloof's workshop in Alta Loma, California, became a museum — but his apprentice, Larry White, kept working. Larry once told a visiting journalist about a half-finished rocking chair that Sam had started before his death. The wood was rough-cut, the joints barely sketched. Most craftsmen would have scrapped it. Larry refused. "Sam began this chair," he said.…