1970 Portrait of Raymond Loewy
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy (Paris, Fr., 1893-Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1986) was here in his twilight years at the age of 77 at the time of the photograph.
At an early age 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
1970 Portrait of Raymond Loewy
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy (Paris, Fr., 1893-Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1986) was here in his twilight years at the age of 77 at the time of the photograph.
At an early age 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