- Zdeněk Kovář
Zdeněk Kovář, born
January 26 1917 ,Vsetín ,Moravia (Czech Republic ), diedJune 21 2004 ,Zlín , renown Czech industrial designer.Life
He trained as a shoemaker in
Baťa ’sZlín factory, then as locksmith and later as engineer. He studied under prominent Czech sculptor Vincenc Makovský atZlín ’s Art School from 1939 where he became interested in industrial design. He graduated there in 1943. He continued to work atZlín forBaťa creating body designs for vertical drilling machines. In 1947 he founded an industrial design studio in theZlín Technical College. From 1959 he taught at the Institute of Arts & Crafts inPrague . Kovář was also a sculptor. His industrial designs involved projects for scissor and tool handles, lever door handles, sewing machines, lathes, typewriters, film projectors, record players. His most well-known proposals are for theTatra truck bodies for types T137 and T138 (1956-1958) and studies for the passenger carTatra T603 (1954).Reference
*cite book | author=Raban, Josef | title= Zdeněk Kovář | location=Prague | publisher=NCVU | year=1963
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