DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE
Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss: DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE. NYC: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. sm4to. A very good hardcover book in full cloth in a very good dust jacket: DJ lightly worn with one chip at spine crown juncture. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.7 x 9.75 hardcover book with 240 pages and over 200 photographs and illustrations. "A largely autobiographical retrospective view of the industrial design profession by a major protagonist in the story." Karpel E1110.
The name Henry Dreyfuss is synonymous with industrial design. Dreyfuss was one of the "big four" industrial designers, along with Walter Dorwin Teague, Norman bel Geddes and Raymond Loewy.
During his 44-year career, the versatile Dreyfuss designed hundreds of products that have become icons of modern design, among them the Princess and Trimline telephones, John Deere tractors and Hoover vacuum cleaners, which he outfitted with headlights and bumpers to protect furniture. Other designs by Dreyfuss range from the familiar Honeywell round, wall-mounted thermostat, the Big Ben alarm clock, trains such as the 20th Century Limited for the New York Central Railroad, and the "Situation Room" for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II.
Dreyfuss streamlined even his wardrobe by wearing only brown suits, stayed exclusively at the Plaza hotel while he was in New York, so clients could always find him, and reportedly missed only five days of work in twenty-two years. He enjoyed long-standing relationships with such firms as AT&T, John Deere & Co., Honeywell and Lockheed.
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