Pola Stout | |
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 Stout with husband Rex Stout, 1944 | |
| Born | Josefine Pola Weinbach January 8, 1902 |
| Died | October 12, 1984 (aged 82) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Other names | Pola Hoffmann |
| Occupation | Textile designer |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
Josefine Pola Stout (née 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. She was executor of Rex Stout's literary estate after her husband's death in 1975.