Find Profile:
1 record found
Adams, Wilbur Henry [1906-. USA. Industrial Designer/Architect]
Adams, Wilbur Henry [1906-. USA. Industrial Designer/Architect]
Wilbur Henry Adams was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on 1 June 1906 and studied architecture under Raymond Hood and Jacques Carlu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He subsequently worked as an industrial designer.
Adams designed plastic tableware (for Applied Plastics Division), buses (for Twin Coach), milk trucks (for Divco-Twin), batteries (for Willard) and refrigerators (for Stewart-Warner), electric water heaters and ranges (for Electromaster). Other clients of Adams included Griswold Manufacturing, Lyons Transporation, the Perfection Stove Company, and Republic Steel. In 1938 he designed a float for the Rose Bowl Parade, and in the 1940s he designed wooden bicycles and tricycles for the Colson Corporation, a company for whom he was associated for several years.
A tractor and combine designed by Adams for the Oliver Corporation is featured in ‘U.S. Industrial Design 1949-1950. Society of Industrial Designers’ (New York, NY: The Studio Publications Incorporated, 1949 p.128).
Adams’ work as an architect included the Rockefeller Center in New York City (with Raymond Hood), and the ‘Daily’ News’ Building in New York City. Much of Adams’ work as a designer was undertaken in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he lived for many years with his wife and family. He died in c.1958.
DESIGN RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS © If you would like to add information to this profile please contact Design Research Publications info@arts-search.com
Your contribution will be acknowledged.
Adams designed plastic tableware (for Applied Plastics Division), buses (for Twin Coach), milk trucks (for Divco-Twin), batteries (for Willard) and refrigerators (for Stewart-Warner), electric water heaters and ranges (for Electromaster). Other clients of Adams included Griswold Manufacturing, Lyons Transporation, the Perfection Stove Company, and Republic Steel. In 1938 he designed a float for the Rose Bowl Parade, and in the 1940s he designed wooden bicycles and tricycles for the Colson Corporation, a company for whom he was associated for several years.
A tractor and combine designed by Adams for the Oliver Corporation is featured in ‘U.S. Industrial Design 1949-1950. Society of Industrial Designers’ (New York, NY: The Studio Publications Incorporated, 1949 p.128).
Adams’ work as an architect included the Rockefeller Center in New York City (with Raymond Hood), and the ‘Daily’ News’ Building in New York City. Much of Adams’ work as a designer was undertaken in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he lived for many years with his wife and family. He died in c.1958.
DESIGN RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS © If you would like to add information to this profile please contact Design Research Publications info@arts-search.com
Your contribution will be acknowledged.  |