Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
1661 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC
A pioneer of the industrial design profession, Loewy began his career in 1929 when he redesigned the Gestetner duplicating machine and, since then, his commissions include automobiles, product packaging, airplanes, locomotives, corporation logotypes, the first orbiting space station, vacuum cleaners, ferryboats, dinnerware and luxury buses. On view are 136 photographs, drawings, models and objects; models include those of Air Force One and Eastern Airlines' Yellowbird; objects include a 1975 Avanti II.
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