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Raymond Loewy
| Industrial designer Date of Birth: 05.11.1893 Country: Monaco |
Content:
- Industrial designer
- Early career
- Pennsylvania Railroad
- Studebaker and other designs
- Designing the Coca-Cola bottle
- Legacy
Industrial designer
Raymond Loewy, born in 1893 in Paris, France, was a renowned industrial designer known for his iconic designs.
He came from a family with Jewish roots, the son of Viennese journalist Maximilian Loewy and his French wife Marie Labalme. Loewy moved to the United States in 1919, but received his education in France.
Early career
Loewy had a talent for drawing from a young age and attended art school.
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In America, he began working as a designer and decorator and soon received orders for window displays from famous stores such as Macy's, Wanamaker's, and Saks. He also created illustrations for publications like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
By the late 1920s, he was working on designs for General Electric, but with the onset of the Great