Raymond Loewy Publicity
Front cover of the German magazine 'Der Spiegel', #50, Dec. 9, 1952.
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy (Paris, Fr., 1893-Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1986) was here at the age of 59 at the time of the photograph. He had gained a lot of positive publicity because his autobiography 'Never Leave Well Enough Alone' (1951) was accepted so well in Germany. By then he was already a real world-wide style icon.
Raymond Loewy designed besides cars a huge variety of different types of objects: trains and typewriters, refrigerators and radio sets, cigarette packages and restaurant interiors, sewing machines and long distance passenger busses, etc. etc. And don't forget the famous Coca Cola bottle.
Picture was taken from:
Paul Jodard, Raymond Loewy, Series: Design Heroes, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1994.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Book collection Sander Toonen (2021).
Halfweg, May 27, 2024.
© 2024 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
Raymond Loewy Publicity
Front cover of the German magazine 'Der Spiegel', #50, Dec. 9, 1952.
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy (Paris, Fr., 1893-Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1986) was here at the age of 59 at the time of the photograph. He had gained a lot of positive publicity because his autobiography 'Never Leave Well Enough Alone' (1951) was accepted so well in Germany. By then he was already a real world-wide style icon.
Raymond Loewy designed besides cars a huge variety of different types of objects: trains and typewriters, refrigerators and radio sets, cigarette packages and restaurant interiors, sewing machines and long distance passenger busses, etc. etc. And don't forget the famous Coca Cola bottle.
Picture was taken from:
Paul Jodard, Raymond Loewy, Series: Design Heroes, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1994.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Book collection Sander Toonen (2021).
Halfweg, May 27, 2024.
© 2024 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved