Hoffman Auto Showroom

Manhattan, United States

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Hoffman Auto Showroom at 430 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a 3,600-square-foot glass and steel ground-floor space completed in 1954 for European automobile importer Max Hoffman. The showroom's most distinctive feature was its sloping floor, engineered to display up to five vehicles at once. Originally intended as a Jaguar dealership—Hoffman, son of a Viennese Rolls-Royce dealer, had even commissioned a large leaping jaguar sculpture for the space—the showroom shifted to Mercedes-Benz by its opening, requiring the jaguar model to be returned to Coventry. The building was demolished in April 2013 to make room for a TD Bank branch.