- Mr. Teague was born December 18, 1883 and died December 5, 1960. He was an American architect, designer and one of the most prolific American industrial designers when talking about the amount of completed work.
- He was raised in Pendleton, Indian. His father was a Methodist minister. Then in 1902 he packed up his bags and moved to New York City.
- For five years Walter painted signs and drew for mail-order catalog's while he attended the Art Students League of New York at night thinking he'd become a magazine illustrator.
- In 1926, while in Europe, he discovered the work of Le Corbusier and at that point decided he wanted to design products for manufacturers. Returning to New York, he jointed a group of individuals interested in establishing industrial design as a separate occupation.
- Then in 1927 he was contracted by Eastman Kodak to design cameras. Kodak would remain a client of his for 30 years.
- Between 1934 and 1937 Teague designed several models of streamlined Texaco gas stations, which the company had built around 500 of these buildings by 1940. Because of their popularity these stations became an Art Deco icon of war-era America and by 1960 Texaco had built more than 20,000.
- He then switched over to Boeing in 1946 with the design of the Stratocruiser's interior.
- His son, Walter Dorwin Teague Jr. joined his firm in 1934; together they made contributions to many industrial and consumer products. One such project the father and son duo took on were the Cold War missiles Lark and Loki.
- Walter Teague's son won an award from the Industrial Designers Institute for a fully reclinable dentist's chair, which allowed dentists to sit while working on people's teeth.
- His firm's Steinway Peace Piano, which was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair, is now located in the Smithsonian.
Campbell, Gordon. The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press
No comments:
Post a Comment