The Studebaker coupes, pencil sharpeners, and locomotives of the era all hold the same ovular style. This was purposeful. Loewy thought the egg was nature’s time-tested pinnacle of design and function, a structure of such precise curvature that a shell less than one one-hundredth of an inch thick could resist twenty pounds of applied pressure. Once you know Loewy’s north star, it’s impossible to stop seeing eggs—or eggish curves—throughout his firm’s designs.
