| The Avanti was designed
in 1961 in a newly built house in the Palm
Springs desert. Raymond Loewy leased
this small two-room building as a place for the designers he
had selected as colleagues to work and sleep. Loewy
and his family lived nearby in a house built in 1946-47 that
was designed by local architect Albert
Frey. Loewy's design team consisted
of experienced designers and former Loewy employees, John
Ebstein and Bob Andrews, as well as a young student from
Art Center named Tom Kellogg. The
team gathered in Palm Springs
and sequestered themselves in this studio leased solely for
the purpose of developing the new car design. Each team member
had a role: Andrews and Kellogg
handled the sketching, Ebstein oversaw
the project, and Loewy served as the
creative director, offering input on the design. |
The 2-room studio tract house in Palm
Springs.
Airbrushed rendering of the first production Avanti. |
