Word: dorwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...
...spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Dorwin Teague, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss...