Color photos of a Futura radio from 1968. The design is modern with bright colors. Two rectangular plastic panels in orange and red, which flip open to reveal the tuner and dials. The top photo shows the unit closed, with a black square speaker at left. Bottom photo reveals the tuner with panels flipped open.

“MCM Design Crush: Nordmende Spectra Futura, design by Raymond Loewy, 1968.”
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Source: Travis Smith

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

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image from. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Car_of_the_Future_1950.jpg: Loewy ‘wrote about the new styling for “tomorrow's rocket age population” but dismissed the idea of clear plastic tops and turbine engines. The three-point front end was a design feature on the 1951 Studebaker. Some of the other elements of this concept model influenced the 1953 Studebaker Starliner.’

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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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
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A spherical, black Bakelite and chrome art-moderne-style thermos flask, 1937, designed by Raymond Loewy, with a black Bakelite stopper and a curved pouring handle.

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.)

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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, ➡️

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