Historical / lost work
Hoffman Auto Showroom
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Place
- New York, New York, United States
- Construction
- Year not established
- Design / archive date
- 1954
- Catalogue reference
- FLWFA 5622 / S.380
Interior of the Hoffman Auto Showroom, 1999, illustrating the spiral display. The mirrored surfaces were not part of the original design, and were added in the early 1980s.
Frank Lloyd Wright-designed table and low stool for sitting, interior at the Hoffman Auto Showroom in 1999.
The Hoffman Auto Showroom was a New York City automobile dealership office designed in 1954 by the celebrated U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) space, which was located on the ground floor of 430 Park Avenue, an office tower at Park Avenue between East 55th and 56th Streets, was designed in glass and steel with a circular and sloping ramp for the automobile display; due to its limited floor space, it could only acc
Architecture & history
The Hoffman Auto Showroom was an automobile dealership at 430 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright for notable European importer Max Hoffman in 1954, the glass and steel 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) space was located on the ground floor of an office tower located between East 55th and 56th streets. It was dominated by a sloping floor capable of displaying up to five automobiles.
Hoffman, the son of a Viennese Rolls-Royce dealer, had intended to use it for his Jaguar dealership. However, by its completion he had moved on to Mercedes-Benz and a large model of a leaping jaguar had to be sent back to Coventry.
In early April 2013, the building's owners, Midwood Investment & Management and Oestreicher Properties, demolished the showroom to make way for a TD Bank branch office.
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