Wolfgang Hoffmann

Graduating from the Kunstgewerbeschule (University of Applied Arts, Vienna), where he studied under Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank, he spent a year-and-a-half gaining practical experience in an architect's office before joining his father's firm for two years.

Throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s the Hoffmans created "contemporary interiors and industrial designs" for stores, theaters and private residences.

The 1929 exhibition featured Wolfgang's bench, dinette table and two chairs in American walnut, and Pola's rug.

[1] In 1932 Hoffmann was asked to assist Urban in developing the "Rainbow City" color scheme for the 1933–1934 Chicago World's Fair, subtitled A Century of Progress 1833–1933.

The exhibition's eight-page booklet "The Sunlight House Interiors Designed by Wolfgang Hoffman; Century of Progress 1933" described and pictured innovative features such as an expanding dinner table, combination desk-bookcase, and chairs designed to comfortably accommodate different body types, as well as a list of the manufacturers involved.

[7] In 1934, Donald Deskey asked Hoffmann to design birchwood furniture for Helena Rubinstein's Park Avenue apartment.

[1] Hoffmann and his wife Ann, living in the Tri-City community of Batavia, opened an up-to-date photography studio in the Unity Building, Geneva, on October 1, 1944.