In an increasingly design-conscious age, this series provides introductions to the work of a varied roster of leading 20th-century designers, graphic designers and architect/designers. This book examines the work of the industrial designer, Randolph Loewy. Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) designed the Lucky Strike cigarette pack, the Greyhound bus, the Coke dispenser and the interior of Skylab, was the first to streamline cars and fridges, and is most famous for spawning a host of baroque imitations of his revolutionary car design ...
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In an increasingly design-conscious age, this series provides introductions to the work of a varied roster of leading 20th-century designers, graphic designers and architect/designers. This book examines the work of the industrial designer, Randolph Loewy. Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) designed the Lucky Strike cigarette pack, the Greyhound bus, the Coke dispenser and the interior of Skylab, was the first to streamline cars and fridges, and is most famous for spawning a host of baroque imitations of his revolutionary car design work for Studebaker in the late 1940s. Though French-born, he came to represent a certain kind of modern affluence which epitomized American culture in the rich years immediately following World War II. To some his success was based on his "unerring vulgar taste", for others he had a "genial knack for pushing himself to the front", but more than any other figure, he can safely be said to have designed the post-war material world in the United States and thus, by extension, everywhere else.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 9780800866426.
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0800866428. Dust smudging to the rear endpaper. Loewy set the pace for industrial design in America in the 1930s as well as in the postwar period.; Design Heroes; 192 pages.
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Good in Fine jacket. Book 192 pages, numerous b/w illustrations, note and reading list; small 8vo, red boards. Front inner hinge broken, good, contents fine; fine dust jacket. Loewy's designs ranged from streamlined trains to Studebaker Starlings and Avantis, everything from lipsticks to locomotives.
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Used-Like New. Loewy, was born in France but lived and worked in America. His panache and style set the pace for the industrial design in America in the 1930s as well as in the postwar period. BEAUTIFUL COPY! ! ! wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
