Raymond Loewy
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Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 steam locomotive | |
(1893-11-05)November 5, 1893 Paris, France | |
July 14, 1986(1986-07-14) (aged 92) Monte Carlo, Monaco | |
Illness | |
Rochefort-en-Yvelines Cemetery, Rambouillet, France | |
France, United States | |
Industrial designer | |
1909–1980 | |
The slenderized Coca-Cola bottle, the streamlined Greyhound bus, the John F. Kennedy postage stamp, the Lucky Strike cigarette package, locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the interiors of NASA's Saturn I, Saturn V, and Skylab, the Sears Coldspot refrigerator, Schick electric razors, several Studebaker models, and the logos of Chubb Corp., Exxon, Greyhound, Nabisco, Shell, and the U.S. Postal Service | |
Jean Thompson Loewy (m. 1931–1945; divorced) Viola Erickson Loewy (m. 1948) | |
Laurence Loewy | |
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http://www.raymondloewy.com/ |
Born in France to a Jewish family, he spent most of his professional career in the United States. Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola vending machines, the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 and S-1 locomotives, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti and Champion, and the Air Force One livery. His career spanned seven decades.