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Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Title: John Elgin Woolf papers
Creator:
Woolf, Robert Koch
Creator:
Woolf, John Elgin
Identifier/Call Number: 0000197
Physical Description:
100 Linear Feet
(25 1/2 record storage boxes, 2 card boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 3 rolls, and 20 flat file drawers)
Date (inclusive): circa 1929-circa 1983
Language of Material:
English
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Robert Koch Woolf and Gene O. Woolf, 1987. Additional gift from the Florance R. Slinkard Estate, 2011. Additional
gift of Horn materials from Henry W. Guy and Deborah Seay, 2021.
John E. Woolf papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
John Elgin Woolf was born January 4, 1908 in Georgia. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from the Georgia Institute
of Technology in 1929. After completing school, Woolf moved to Los Angeles, California. In the 1940s Woolf met Robert Koch,
an interior designer. The two became partners and together created homes-- designing buildings, interiors, and remodellings--for
many wealthy and famous Los Angeles residents. Woolf's style has been called Hollywood Regency and his more notable projects
include: the James B. Pendleton Residence; a remodeling of Case Study House 17, originally designed by Rodney Walker; as well
as homes for celebrities such as Cary Grant, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, among others. John Elgin Woolf died
on September 24, 1980.
The John Elgin Woolf papers span 100 linear feet and date from circa 1929 to circa 1983. The collection contains architectural
drawings and reprographic copies, receipts concerning design purchases, fabric swatches, correspondence with clients, newspaper
and magazine clippings regarding projects, and black-and-white as well as color photographs documenting the exteriors and
interiors of the office's designs.
The following arrangement scheme for this collection was imposed during processing in the absence of a usable original order.
The collection is organized into three series: personal papers, office files, and architecture and design projects. The contents
of the personal papers and office files are each arranged in chronological order. The architecture and design project series
is divided into subseries by client/project name, and subsequently arranged by format (for example: architectural drawings,
photographs, project files, and slides).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sketches
Renderings
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Interior design
Floor plans
Exterior elevations
Elevations
Detail drawings
Architects -- California
Photographic prints
Architectural photographs
Correspondence
Architecture -- California
Specifications
Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Reprographic copies
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century
Architectural drawings
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Conceptual drawings
Contracts
Woolf, Robert Koch
Woolf, John Elgin