Lurelle Guild

Lurelle Van Arsdale Guild (Syracuse, New York, 1898 – Darien, Connecticut, 1985) was an American artist and prominent industrial designer.

After an education in painting at Syracuse University and a first career of magazine covers, Guild (pronounced to rhyme with "child," not "spilled") began the work in industrial design that was to bring him lasting fame and a career in just one year of which he patented some 1,000 designs.

Among his most noted designs is the 1937 Electrolux vacuum cleaner and a number of streamlined aluminum household items, particularly a Kensington Ware range produced by Alcoa from 1934.

References

• Martin Grief, Depression Modern: The Thirties Style in America, New York: Universe, 1975, pp. 60, 174–79. | ISBN 0876639252
• Cat., J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925–1940, Design for a New Age, New York: Abrams, 2000. | ISBN 0810942089
• "Guild, Lurelle Van Arsdale (1898–1985)" in Mel Byars, The Design Encyclopedia, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004, p. 219. | ISBN 0-87070-012-X

External links

• http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/guild_l.htm - guide to his papers at Syracuse University - contains biographical study
• http://new.idsa.org/webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=2798&z=60 - profile at Industrial Designers Society of America
• http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indvac.html - focusesd on his vacuum cleaner design
• http://www.cmoa.org/aluminum/pages/tours_html/designers/6.htm - mentions and illustrates his aluminum designs
• The Marshall Johnson Collection of Cookware and Appliance Design Drawings at Hagley Museum and Library contains a biographical note on Lurelle Guild and of the 489 drawings in the collection, many depict his Kensington Ware aluminum products (1922-1960).