Sunday, October 04, 2020

Richard Arbib concept designs

Richard Arbib personal luxury car, modelled on the Cadillac Eldorado








https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/18798/richard-arbib/dorade

Richard Arbib was a tireless industrial designer, from his early involvement with GM's Styling Section under Harley Earl, to his own studio whose work ranged from watches to yachts, and included many lasting automotive innovations.

 Born in Gloversville, New York of Egyptian parentage, he attended Pratt. He worked on GM's exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, and then various automotive, industrial and military designers (during the war) until he set up his own firm in New York in 1949. 

His work during the 1950's was especially important to the future as many of his dynamic and "space-age" designs were incorporated into production models of the late 50's, 60's and 70's. He also supplied illustrations to science fiction magazines and novels.


I did a good post on his commercial work last year, the Hamilton watch used in Men In Black, the Astro Gnome, and radios, etc https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-hamilton-ventura-most-people.html

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