Sam told a reporter about business in the 1960’s, “I was offered 22 million dollars for the rights” to mass-produce his original designs. The offer was turned down. Maloof scholar Jeremy Adamson explains, "He was trying to make other people appreciate what it was like to live with a handcrafted object in which there was a kind of union between maker, object and owner."  To create Maloof furniture in a factory was not in keeping with the artistic philosophy: the most important tools a man has are his hands.