Walter Paul Paepcke Images

Aspen Mountain as Walter Paepcke first would have seen it.

Walter Paepcke speaks to a large crowd in Florida during a celebration of the opening of his firm’s new plant.

The aesthetic found in Walter Paepcke’s office reflected a company-wide commitment to modernist design.

Walter Paepcke’s fondness for spending time outside of the city would stay strong throughout his lifetime. Here one sees the…

Elizabeth Paepcke’s eye for design went a long way in convincing her husband to think seriously about the profitability of…

Prussian immigrant Hermann Paepcke spent his first American years in Texas before moving to Chicago.

Paepcke’s lumber holdings specialized in both planing cut timber and making box shooks—that is, the wooden cartons that most goods…

From behind this desk in his Chicago offices, Hermann Paepcke controlled lumber interests stretching across the United States and Europe.

Walter Paepcke with artist and colleague Herbert Bayer at exhibition “Modern Art in Advertising” sponsored by CCA at the Art…