Illustration by Libby VanderPloeg
Design: Coldspot Six Refrigerator
Designer: Raymond Loewy (French-American, 1893-1986)
Date: 1934
Country of Origin: United States
Manufacturer: Sears, Roebuck & Company
Background: Although early Modernist designers like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies Van Der Rohe tend to receive the lion’s share of admiration from today’s design enthusiasts and historians, their direct influence and fame were, at least early-on, relegated mostly to European avant garde circles. If one is looking for the true forefather of contemporary industrial design and the creator of western consumer culture as we know it
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