Dreyfuss, Henry (1904-1972)

US industrial designer. He was a major pioneer of design in the interwar years. He moved through stage and store design before setting up an independent office 1929 from which he collaborated with a number of manufacturers. Notable designs include his black bakelite telephone ‘Bell 33’ 1933 for Bell Telephone and the streamlined train ‘Twentieth Century Limited’ 1941 for the New York Central Railroad.

After World War II he worked on a system of anthropometrics (the study of the size and proportions of the human body), disseminated through his two influential books Designing for People 1955 and The Measure of Man 1960.