Main entry:

Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986.

Title & Author:

Never leave well enough alone / by Raymond Loewy with a new introduction by Glenn Porter.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Description:

xxiv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Originally published in 1951 by Simon and Schuster, New York.
Chapter 1 Corporal Loewy 3 -- Chapter 2 Adolescence 15 -- Chapter 3 Sex and Locomotives 39 -- Chapter 4 Fashion Illustrator 51 -- Chapter 5 The Crusade 65 -- Chapter 6 The Duplicating Angel 81 -- Chapter 7 Skyscraper Office 91 -- Chapter 8 American Cooking 99 -- Chapter 9 Penthouse Studio 115 -- Chapter 10 The "Me Too" Boys 125 -- Chapter 11 From Toothpicks to Locomotives 133 -- Chapter 12 Big Business 145 -- Chapter 13 Michael and Venise 161 -- Chapter 14 Viola Erickson 165 -- Chapter 15 Preparations for Postwar 179 -- Chapter 16 The National Widget Company 187 -- Chapter 17 The Chrome and You 207 -- Chapter 18 Industrial Design and Your Life 233 -- Chapter 19 Case History 257 -- Chapter 20 The MAYA Stage 277 -- Chapter 21 The Borax Plague 287 -- Chapter 22 Design and Psychology 295 -- Chapter 23 Automobile Body Styling 305 -- Chapter 24 Reader Rides Again 321 -- Chapter 25 Keeping Fit 349 -- Chapter 26 Where To? 369.

Summary:

One of the nation's leading industrial designers discusses his life and accomplishments, from creating the Studebaker to designing the packaging for Lucky Strikes.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801872111 (alk. paper)
9780801872112 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Loewy, Raymond, 1893-1986.
Loewy, Raymond, 1893--1986.
Industrial designers Biography.
Designers Biographies.
Industrial designers.
Industriële vormgeving.
Vormgeving.
United States.

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226154
Call No.: NK44.L827.A2 2002
Status: Available