Thermos carafe, model #3570
Chrome and Bakelite, 1937
American Thermos Bottle Co.
Designed by Raymond Loewy

I don't recall where I got it - perhaps Goodwill or a Queen West nostalgia shop? - but it was in Toronto in the 1980s. (Just now looked up its date/designer.)

#ThingThursday #RaymondLoewy

#hallicrafters #raymondloewy #radio #receiver #tuberadio #１９４６ #madeinusa #vintage #antique #rockinstudio #rockinstation #rockinhouse #rockinscooters

#OTD in 1940
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‘Artist Raymond Loewy Sitting At His Desk’
Photo by Luis Lemus (1932-2011) for *House & Garden*
The eminent industrial designer (1893-1986) is shown with a cocktail shaker & a plaster train. Nov. 1, 1940
#blackandwhitephotography #portraiture #RaymondLoewy

Ridley Park station (1942): While working for the PRR, Loewy collaborated with architect Lester C. Tichy to design the current Ridley Park station building, which opened in 1942.

#urbansketching
#watercolor
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#pennsylvaniarailroad
#ridleyparkpa

In #AUGUST 1950
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‘Raymond Loewy’s Car of the Future’
#Illustration by Arthur C. Bade (1899-1975)
Cover of *Science and Mechanics* August 1950
#RaymondLoewy #industrialDesign #industrialDesigners #automotiveDesign #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ArthurCBade #ArthurBade

“MCM Design Crush: Nordmende Spectra Futura, design by Raymond Loewy, 1968.”
#raymondloewy #vintageradio #vintageelectronics #midcenturymodern #midcenturymoderndesign #designcrush
Source: Travis Smith

In #AUGUST 1950
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‘Raymond Loewy’s Car of the Future’
#Illustration by Arthur C. Bade (1899-1975)
Cover of *Science and Mechanics* August 1950
#RaymondLoewy #industrialDesign #industrialDesigners #automotiveDesign #illustrationart #illustrationartists #ArthurCBade #ArthurBade

Raymond Loewy's vacation home outside of Mexico City in Desierto de Los Leones. For the interior Loewy mixed his own modern designs with Mexican antiques and traditional pieces. Photo from House and Garden Magazine, August 1944
#raymondloewy #loewy

Bade was a staff illustrator at *Science and Mechanics* from 1944 to 1955.
Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) was then Studebaker's Director of Styling.
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#RaymondLoewy #industrialDesign #industrialDesigners #automotiveDesign #Studebaker #1950s

Acquisition from the half price book store. #designlegend #raymondloewy 🙌🙌🙌 #indytown #usedbookfinds

#RaymondLoewy 120 years today. Known as the man whose iconic industrial designs defined 20th century #style

The climactic trains of that day’s photos, with the “woman of the future”, were (left) the new futuristic streamlined S-1 designed by #RaymondLoewy for the Pennsylvania RR and (right) a locomotive marked ‘1939’, evidently representing the present; however, ➡️

Loewy’s all-encompasing design work ranged from his streamlined pencil sharpener (1934) to ➡️
#RaymondLoewy #industrialdesign #designers

Bade was a staff illustrator at *Science and Mechanics* from 1944 to 1955.
Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) was then Studebaker's Director of Styling.
👉ALT
#RaymondLoewy #industrialDesign #industrialDesigners #automotiveDesign #Studebaker #1950s

The climactic trains of that day’s photos, with the “woman of the future”, were (left) the new futuristic streamlined S-1 designed by #RaymondLoewy for the Pennsylvania RR and (right) a locomotive marked ‘1939’, evidently representing the present; however, ➡️