Desk Accessories by Gift Craft
The Paul McCobb Collection by Gift Craft Leather - Photo from Paul McCobb's archives I first became aware of the Paul McCobb Group by Gift Craft Leather when I acquired Paul McCobb's papers in 2010. There were three very good black and white photo's of the group but little else in terms of hard information, at this point I did not even know the name of the manufacturer. Shortly after, in August 2010, I learned that the companies name was Gift Craft Leather from a visit to the Science, Industry and Business Library on Madison Avenue in NYC where I found the following snippet from Office Management Magazine's October 1959 issue (with help from Google Books and the Hathi Trust Digital Library ) in their Microfiche archive. Office Management October 1959 page 70 It wasn't until January 2011 during a visit to Gerard O'Brien 's absolutely wonderful free design library at Reform Gallery in Los Angeles that I learned that Pau...