Josefine Pola Stout was an American designer best known for creating fine woolen fabrics. Born in Stryj, she studied with Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Vienna, and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before she immigrated to the United States in 1925 with her first husband, architect and designer Wolfgang Hoffmann. Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann became a prominent interior design team that contributed to the development of American modernism in the early 20th century. They dissolved their successful partnership in 1932, when she married popular mystery author Rex Stout. Pola Stout was an influential textile designer after her second marriage. She was executor of Rex Stout's literary estate after her husband's death in 1975.
Stout with husband Rex Stout, 1944
Auditorium of the Little Carnegie Playhouse by Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann, architects (1928)
Art gallery in the Little Carnegie Playhouse (1928)
Light pewter cigarette and ash trays by Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann (1930)
Stryi is a city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located the left bank of the Stryi River, approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of Lviv in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. It serves as the administrative center of Stryi Raion within the oblast. Stryi also hosts the administration of Stryi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 59,425.
Image: Budynek Stryjskiej Miejskiej Rady
Image: Вілла по вул. Франка, 14 у м.Стрий
Image: Villa Stryi
Image: Kostel in Stryi.5