Fred Lowen

Fritz "Fred" Karl Heinz Lowen (1919 - 2005) is a designer, member of the Order of Australia, [cite web
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Biography

Lowen was born 1919 in Upper Silesia, formerly a part of Germany. He was transported to Australia on the HMT Dunera arriving in Sydney on the September 6, 1940.

Starting in September 1945, Lowen designed and made wooden salad bowls, trays and lazy susans with Ernest Rodeck under the name of FLER.Fact|date=January 2008 He manufactured a Fred Ward-designed chair for the Myer department store in Melbourne, Victoria. Between 1955-58 Lowen designed the SC55 and SC58, the Aluminium Shell Chair, mahogany fold-out extension table and cane back chairs.Fact|date=January 2008 The Narvik dining and lounge ranges were released in 1961, the Fleronde (1964/65), dining setting (1966/67), desk and chair for the Australian Exhibition at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada, and Flerena in 1968.Fact|date=January 2008

Lowen started Twen in 1968 and designed the Twen-1 range (1968) and Twen-2 in 1969. In 1970 Lowen designed the T-21 range and model T-4. In 1972 Twenwas reborn as Tessa. The T-6 (1973), the T-8 range (with and without armrests) designed in 1976, and the T-9 followed. In the 1980s Lowen designed the Delmont (1980), Sarina (1981) and Sling (1981).Fact|date=January 2008

In May 1987 Lowen became a member of the Order of Australia. He died in Melbourne in 2005.

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