Samuel Abraham Marx (August 27, 1885 - January 1964) was an American architect, designer and interior decorator.
Before opening his own practice, he worked for Killham & Hopkins in Boston, and for Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge in Chicago.
While he originally designed interior of hotels and department stores, Marx became a mostly residential architect, designing stripped-down buildings reminiscent of Mies van der Rohe's works, while he became respected for his aesthetic and functional integrated furnitures and decorative elements.
Along with his third wife, Florene May (daughter of David May, the founder of The May Department Stores Company), he was an avid art collector.
Liz O'Brien's recent monography, Ultramodern, Samuel Marx: Architect, Designer, Art Collector[2] asserts his role in the modernist movement.