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Bourke, Robert E.

Author: 
Carroll Gantz
Birth/Death Age: 
1916-1996
Robert E. Bourke

This American industrial designer attended Chicago Art Institute and started as a staff designer for Sears, Roebuck in 1935. In 1940 Virgil Exner hired him as a Studebaker staff designer.

Sources: 
100 Years of Design consists of excerpts from a book by Carroll M. Gantz, FIDSA, entitled, Design Chronicles: Significant Mass-produced Designs of the 20th Century, published August 2005 by Schiffer Publications, Ltd.
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