Raymond Loewy : pioneer of American industrial design /

Critical essays, with illustrations, of many of the artist's designs.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Raymond Loewy.
Corporate Author: Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin
Other Authors: Schönberger, Angela, Bayley, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Munich New York, NY, USA : Prestel ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by te Neues Pub., ©1990.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A Frenchman in New York: Loewy's debut in the United States / Evert Endt
  • Design and the American dream: Associates of Loewy / Elizabeth Reese
  • From celebrity to anonymity: The professionalization of American industrial design / Jeffrey L. Meikle
  • The industrialist as artist: The machine-age in America 1910-1945 / Richard Guy Wilson
  • Nothing succeeds like success: Raymond Loewy: The thirties and forties / Arthur J. Pulos
  • Raymond Loewy and the world of tomorrow: New York's World Fair 1939 / Donald J. Bush
  • Inside, outside: Loewy's interiors and architecture / Angela Schönberger
  • The American way of life: American design in the fifties / John Heskett
  • The Studebaker connection: Loewy and thirty years of automobile design / Bruno Sacco
  • New impulses at Rosenthal: Loewy's designs for Chinaware / Bernd Fritz
  • Apostle of simplicity: Loewy's book Never Leave Well Enough Alone / Claude Lichtenstein
  • A new concept in design: Developments in design 1960-1975 / Arthur J. Pulos
  • A triple start: 1934, 1947, 1969: Loewy London 1934-1990 / Patrick Farrell
  • The French connection: The Compagnie de l'Esthétique Industrielle / Evert Endt
  • Logo: Loewy and the logo / Michael Schirner
  • Loewy reached for the stars: Loewy and NASA / Reyer Kras
  • Raymond Loewy in the U.S.S.R. / Yuri B. Soloviev
  • "You must create your own design-style": Industrial design in the Soviet Union since 1945 / Yelena Yamaikina
  • New trends, new horizons: American design after Loewy: 1975-1989 / Randolph M. N. McAusland
  • Form made for speed, or progress as propaganda : incentives for styling / François Burkhardt
  • Public relations or industrial design? : Loewy and his legend / Stephen Bayley.