"Is it responsible to camouflage one of America's most remarkable machines as a piece of gaudy merchandise? Form, which should be the clean- cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic."

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“If there is a designer whose name is synonymous with industrial design it is Raymond Loewy .”

“Design is too important to be left to designers.”

“I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.”

“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”

“A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.”

“What Charles and Ray Eames are to furniture design, Raymond Loewy is to industrial design -- the modern master”

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