His father restores classic and antique farm and construction equipment in Rockaway.
Built in over the course of several weeks, Maher completely transforms the row house with construction materials, antique furnishings, toys, architectural models, video projections, and other salvaged odds and ends.
Construction incorporated antiques collected by the owners, including chandeliers and a couple of arched window frames.
As of this week, the bank is prohibiting "antique furniture, customised finishes, and construction of non-standard office sizes or private restrooms".
His PK41 folding stool (1961) can trace its lines to the Thebes stool of Pharaonic Egypt, though he substituted the cedar construction of the antique with ribbons of wafer-thin steel, torqued to give it a reflective quality that made it seem lighter than air.
At least three more cable programs about vintage objects are now in progress, including "Antique Warriors," set at stores under construction in SoHo and Sturbridge, Mass.
So far he has spent more than $6 million of his own money on restoration, new construction and acquisitions of antiques.
The affair stretches back a decade, to the day when Mr Norsigian, a construction worker and amateur antiques buff, purchased the glass negatives from which the pictures were taken at a garage sale in Fresno, California.
Its collections of antique movie cameras, televisions, cars, printing presses, construction materials and scientific instruments tell the story of the industrial revolution and the birth of mass communication.
For this exhibition, Mr. Cape has transformed an entire wall of the gallery, including the doorway to the back office, into a faux-antique facade, the intricate frame and panel construction painted a warm off-white.
