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Guide to the Kim Hoffmann Photograph Collection
1937-1980 (bulk 1949-1960)
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This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit on December 13, 2011
Description is in English.

Container List

Series III: Product and Designer Files

Scope and Contents note

Series III spans the dates from 1940 to 1980 and include products used and designed by Hoffmann & Heidrich. The firm produced industrial designs for many companies, including Congoleum-Nairn, Fabry, Hallam Kitchen, Ironmaster, and LiCo. Hoffmann also designed for Grosfeld House, and created a cabinet with copper doors painted by artist Jan Hugo.

This series includes photographs of Eames furniture designs from an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Paintings and sculptures (by Hoffmann, Ilse Getz, Lotte Jacobi, and others) are also here, both as a record of artist's work, and as ideas for home decorations. The folder entitled "Swing Table and meubles ingenieus" [sic] contains photographs of furniture pieces that embody Hoffmann and Heidrich's multifunctional aesthetic. Many of these pieces appear throughout the residential commissions. Likewise, the furniture manufactured by Willow Reed was often used by Hoffmann and Heidrich in residential designs.

Folders are arranged alphabetically by Hoffmann's original file titles.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 6 Folder : 102 Antico [flooring]
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 103 Automotive [flooring]
[after 1957]
Box: 6 Folder : 104-105 Paul Bry
1940s-1950s
Box: 6 Folder : 106 Cado/Royal System
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 107 Cahn men's wardrobe
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 108 Congoleum-Nairn
1952
Box: 6 Folder : 109 Eames
1946
Box: 6 Folder : 110 Fabry
1954 and later
Box: 6 Folder : 111 Flooring with models
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 112 Folding Table
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 113 Greymour and similar
undated
Box: 6 Folder : 114 Grosfeld House
1950s
Box: 7 Folder : 115 Hallam Kitchen
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 116 Hoffmann & Heidrich lamps
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 117 Hoffmann & Heidrich various industrial design
1950s-1960s
Box: 7 Folder : 118 Home Bistro
1950s-1960s
Box: 7 Folder : 119 Hugo copper door

General note

See also: Box 9, Folder 183

1946
Box: 7 Folder : 120-121 Ironmaster

General note

See also: Box 1, Folders 12-13

1950s
Box: 7 Folder : 122 Jacobi, Lotte
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 123 Lamps
1950s
Box: 7 Folder : 124 LiCo
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 125 Paintings

General note

See also Box 2, Folder 19

undated
Box: 7 Folder : 126 Pelican Upholstory Company
[1949]
Box: 7 Folder : 127-128 Plexiglass

General note

See also: Box 9, Folder 184

1940-1980
Box: 7 Folder : 129 Emery Roth Silver
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 130 Ryback figurines
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 131 Sax

General note

See also: Box 9, Folder 185

undated
Box: 7 Folder : 132 Sebastian
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 133 Selling [flooring]
undated
Box: 7 Folder : 134 Sheltered Workshops
[1940s]
Box: 7 Folder : 135 Jack Soskin Associates
1970s, undated
Box: 7 Folder : 136 Swing Table and meubles ingenieus
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 137 Table Settings
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 138 Tancer
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 139 Tewi
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 140 Vulpiani Furniture Restoration
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 141 Willow Reed
after 1957
Box: 8 Folder : 142 X-Spray Bottles
undated
Box: 8 Folder : 143 Unidentified prints

General note

See also: Box 9, Folder 182

undated
Box: 8 Folder : 144 Unidentified clippings
undated

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