Mark Maleski
Administrator
A short status update on the Phil Lowe library. I'll post additional updates as we have them.
First a bit of background: after Phil's passing in 2021, the effort to scan the extensive library of Phil's drawings was spearheaded by Artie Keenan and Nick Maraldo. SAPFM offered to host the scans for public download, in keeping with our mission to educate the public on period furniture. At this writing, we have received all of the high-resolution scans that were produced through the initial Kickstarter investment - a total of 159 files. However, because these files were uploaded in multiple batches, we've identified a number of duplicates as well as scans that need to be combined to show the multiple elevations of a single piece. Harder than it sounds. Keith Doney has done a tremendous amount of work to analyze and organize this set of files. Still more work remains to sort these files, and I cannot say exactly how many pieces we will have for download when we are finished. It should be somewhere around 60.
Rather than wait until we'd finished analyzing all the files, we wanted to show some results but uploading the scans that are ready. This morning we had 17 downloads. At this writing, we now have 20. Here's what we did today:
First a bit of background: after Phil's passing in 2021, the effort to scan the extensive library of Phil's drawings was spearheaded by Artie Keenan and Nick Maraldo. SAPFM offered to host the scans for public download, in keeping with our mission to educate the public on period furniture. At this writing, we have received all of the high-resolution scans that were produced through the initial Kickstarter investment - a total of 159 files. However, because these files were uploaded in multiple batches, we've identified a number of duplicates as well as scans that need to be combined to show the multiple elevations of a single piece. Harder than it sounds. Keith Doney has done a tremendous amount of work to analyze and organize this set of files. Still more work remains to sort these files, and I cannot say exactly how many pieces we will have for download when we are finished. It should be somewhere around 60.
Rather than wait until we'd finished analyzing all the files, we wanted to show some results but uploading the scans that are ready. This morning we had 17 downloads. At this writing, we now have 20. Here's what we did today:
- Re-ordered the downloads roughly by period.
- "fixed" the Jacobean Sofa download. The original publication had a single elevation, and it wasn't terribly useful. We identified two additional elevations from a later batch and combined the three scans into a single zip file. That's what you'll receive now from that download.
- Added a new download: "Queen Anne Side Chair (New England) #2"
- Added a new download: "Queen Anne Low Boy with Ball/Claw Feet"
- Added a new download: "Chippendale Double Dresser"
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