Olav Hammarstrom papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hammarstrom, Olav, 1906-2002
label: Names
content: Strengell, Marianne, 1909-1998
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Wellfleet
label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
label: Occupation
content: Furniture designers -- Massachusetts -- Wellfleet
label: Occupation
content: Furniture designers -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
label: Topic
content: Finnish Americans
label: Topic
content: Furniture design
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Olav Hammarstrom donated his papers to the Archives of American Art in 1983.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hammarstrom, Olav, 1906-2002
setName: label: See more items in
content: Olav Hammarstrom papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The scattered papers of architect and furniture designer Olav Hammarstrom measure 0.7 linear feet and date from 1939 to 1980. The bulk of the collection consists of project files of architectural works in the United States and around the world. Project files may include correspondence, drawings and architectural renderings, photographs, and printed material.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Olav Hammarstrom (1906-2002) was a Finnish-born architect active in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 

Born in Heinola, Finland in 1906, Olav Hammarstrom studied and began his career as an architect in Helsinki. In 1948, Hammarstrom came to the United States to work on a project with Alvar Aalto in Massachusetts. He stayed in the United States after marrying textile artist Marianne Strengell and settled in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 

Together, Strengell and Hammarstrom served as consultants for the United States government and the United Nations and reported on the cottage industry of weaving in the Philippines and Jamaica. After Strengell retired from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, she and Olav moved to Wellfleet, Massachusetts where Hammarstrom took many commissions.

Olav Hammarstrom died in 2002 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1939-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hammolav
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The scattered papers of architect and furniture designer Olav Hammarstrom measure 0.7 linear feet and date from 1939 to 1980. The bulk of the collection consists of project files of architectural works in the United States and around the world. Project files may include correspondence, drawings and architectural renderings, photographs, and printed material.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds an oral history interview with Olav Hammarstrom, conducted 1982 October 21-1983 March 10 by Robert F. Brown. The Cranbrook Archives also holds a collection of Olav Hammarstrom's papers.