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Raymond Loewy

1893 - 1986

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Raymond Loewy ( LOH-ee, French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ levi]; November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its cover on October 31, 1949. He spent most of his professional career in the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Loewy has received more than 883,479 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Raymond Loewy is the 25th most popular designer (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from France (down from 1,009th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Designer.

Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer. He is most famous for his design of the Coca-Cola bottle.

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  • 27

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Raymond Loewy ranks 25 out of 86Before him are Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Nina Ricci, Hugo Boss, Thomas Chippendale, Manolo Blahnik, and Iris Apfel. After him are Miuccia Prada, Dieter Rams, Philippe Starck, Battista Farina, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Claude Garamond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Raymond Loewy ranks 52Before him are Ana Pauker, Ernst Toller, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Walter Christaller, Walter Baade, and Erwin Piscator. After him are Allen Dulles, Clemens Krauss, Roy O. Disney, Wallace Fard Muhammad, Nicholas J. Spykman, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Among people deceased in 1986, Raymond Loewy ranks 46Before him are Otto Preminger, Dean Reed, Michel de Certeau, Erik Bruhn, Adolfo Celi, and Serge Lifar. After him are Ye Jianying, Coluche, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, J. Allen Hynek, Theodor Busse, and Nikolay Semyonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Loewy ranks 1,335 out of 6,011Before him are Michel Tournier (1924), Louis Vierne (1870), Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (1736), Ferdinand Buisson (1841), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), and Gustave Charpentier (1860). After him are Jean Giono (1895), Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Georges Auric (1899), François Clouet (1510), and Jean II, Duke of Alençon (1409).

Among DESIGNERS In France

Among designers born in France, Raymond Loewy ranks 2Before him are René Lalique (1860). After him are Philippe Starck (1949), Claude Garamond (1499), Pierre Balmain (1914), Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811), Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Nicolas Jenson (1420), Diana Vreeland (1903), and Louis Majorelle (1859).