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The Quiet Dissemination of American Modernism: George Sakier's Designs for American Radiator

George Sakier was a versatile practitioner who worked as an interior designer, painter, art director, engineer, and packaging designer. He was also one of the original industrial designers in America. His career path was as diverse as it was extensive, and his impact upon the development of a modern design aesthetic pervaded not only in the United States but also in Europe. To understand Sakier’s ability to produce designs that have become so pervasive in the American household, one must look to his earlier career—a period of time that Fortune magazine called his “trek from camouflage to bathtubs.”1 During this era, particularly in the 1930s, Sakier emerged as an arbiter of modernism and as one of the first industrial designers. His bathroom and kitchen fixture designs for the American Radiator Company reveal some of the earliest embodiments of a uniquely American modernist style. Through the market appeal and affordability of his industrially designed products, Sakier quietly disseminated his modern aesthetic throughout the country.