Pola Stout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pola Stout

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1902

Place of Birth: Stryi, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1984

Profession: weaver, interior designer, textile designer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Pola Stout (born Josefine Pola Weinbach, January 8, 1902 – October 12, 1984) 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.