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Paul McCobb: Facts from an Application for Membership to the Society of Industrial Designers
Submitted by mpratt on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 1:48pm
Paul W. McCobb
Background
Public Schools: Somerville and Boston, MA
Vesper George School of Art (studied art, art history, design)
Open and private classes in fine arts study, practice
Jordon Marsh Company, Boston
Art work, designing store interiors, displays, and interior design, 1936-1942
U.S. Army, U.S. Army Engineers Camouflage Division. 1942-1943
Prior to forming own design firm, Paul McCobb Design Associates, in 1945, also:
Lord and Taylor, designer, interiors, display
Koroseal division of B.F. Goodrich (Comprehensive Fabrics)
Product development. Basic development of material, designing, and use of material, creating products for promotion.
Director of merchandise presentation, packaging
Richard Heller Associates
Designer
Since 1945 and before 1953:
Showrooms for: Richards Morgenthau Co. of New York, Archibald Holmes & Sons, New York and Chicago, Directional Showrooms, New York
Store Interiors: Burglass Furniture Company, New Orleans, Leo Selditch Furniture Company of Los Angeles
Consultant designer for Carpet Institute involved in merchandise presentation, showroom in Merchandise mart and displays, 1945-1947
Consultant designer for Gray Advertising, merchandise presentation
Consultant designer for Burlington Mills, merchandise presentation
Consultant designer for Richards Morgenthau
Consultant designer for Modernage Furniture Company, designed facade, layouts of 33rd Street Annex including 4 floors, interiors of selling areas and offices. Interiors of New York and Miami stores, 1947-1949
Household furnishing designs:
Lamps and fabrics. Raymor Manufacturing Division. Union City, N.J. Schiffer Fabrics, N.Y. 1946
Upholstered Furniture, metal furniture. Custom Craft, Inc. Chicago, IL. 1948.
Furniture (case goods). Winchendon Furniture Company. Winchendon, MA. 1949.
Carpets. Archibald Holmes & Son. Philadelphia, PA. 1949.
Furniture (upholstered and case goods). O'Hearn Furniture Manufacturing Company. Gardner, MA. 1951
Lamps and accessories, Northcraft Lighting. Nyack, New York. 1951
Sometime in 1952 or prior, member of partnership of Directional Showrooms & Directional Manufacturing Corp.
Thanks
Thanks Mike
Really enjoying getting a few more tangible facts about his early career. It'll be fun tracing this stuff down.
Jonathan