| Raymond Loewy AKA Raymond Fernand Loewy Born: 5-Nov-1893
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 14-Jul-1986
Location of death: Monte Carlo, Monaco
Cause of death: Illness
Remains: Buried, Rochefort-en-Yvelines Cemetery, Rambouillet, France
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Designer Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Father of industrial design Military service: French Army Corps of Engineers (1914-18) Raymond Loewy worked briefly as a fashion illustrator, but broke into industrial design in 1929, when he was hired by the office equipment maker Gestetner to improve the look of the company's early mimeograph machines. Encasing the machinery in a futuristic shell, Gestetner's mimeographs became an industry leader, and Loewy became one of the foremost stylists of the Twentieth Century. His most recognized designs include 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. Father: Maximillian Loewy (journalist)
Mother: Marie Labalme Loewy
Wife: Jean Thompson Loewy (m. 1931, div. 1945)
Wife: Viola Erickson Loewy (b. 1922, m. 22-Dec-1948, d. 1995, one daughter)
Daughter: Laurence Loewy (journalist, b. 1953, d. 2008)
University: BS Electrical Engineering, University of Paris (1910)
University: MS Engineering, École de Lanneau (1918)
Croix de Guerre (four citations)
Raymond Loewy and Associates
Raymond Loewy International
American Society for Industrial Designers President (1946)
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
American Society of Interior Designers
Academy of Achievement
Royal Society of Arts
Society of Automotive Engineers
Naturalized US Citizen 1938
French Ancestry
Author of books:
The Locomotive: Its Aesthetics (1937)
Never Leave Well Enough Alone (1951, memoirs)
Industrial Design (1951)
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