Minneapolis Institute of Art

Stapling pliers

Designer: Fridolin Polzer; Manufacturer: E.H. Hotchkiss Company

Date

c. 1935

Medium

Enamel on chromium-plated metal

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

These stapling pliers showed how high style fused with efficiency in the office. Its Cubist-inspired design, in enamel on chrome-plated metal, was popular in the early Art Deco period in American industrial design, similar to the Kodak Camera and box, also seen in this exhibition. Fridolin Polzer received a patent in 1934 for this design manufactured by Hotchkiss, whose front can be removed to load a strip of staples onto a guide. A squeeze on the handles quickly staples the paper, and repetitive use did not tire the user as conventional staplers could. United States, Americas

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