Polly Lada-Mocarski served as faculty in the Graphic Arts Department at Yale University.
11 Facts About Polly Lada-Mocarski
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Polly Lada-Mocarski's family was upper middle class silk manufacturers, of the Klots Throwing Company of Lonaconing in Maryland.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski attended boarding schools in Washington, DC, and Paris.
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Valla collected rare books, and around the time of their marriage he started his collection of Russian Alaska and early Russian Travel books published before 1868, and Polly Lada-Mocarski started to learn how to do rare book bookbinding, repairs, and conservation.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski received a formal education in bookbinding at the State Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, studying under Ignatz Wiemeler.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski taught bookbinding to students of graphic design by the Graphic Arts Department at Yale, and she was the first female faculty.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski helped establish the bookbinding courses at Creative Arts Workshop, in New Haven.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski was an active member of the Grolier Club, and she was a founding board member of the Center for Book Arts.
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Lada-Mocarski was having a problem in the exhibition of books, and as a result, in 1982 Polly designed, patented and manufactured the PolyCase, an elegant, lightweight, demountable Lucite exhibition case.
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The patent for PolyCase was awarded in 1985, when Polly Lada-Mocarski was in her 80s.
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Polly Lada-Mocarski died at Arden House in Hamden, Connecticut on September 5,1997, her memorial service was at St John's Episcopal Church in New Haven.