Palm Springs - In March of 1961 members of the
design team began work in the isolated environment of a small two room track house newly constructed on the outskirts of Palm Springs, California.
Raymond Loewy lived nearby in a modernist masterpiece designed by architect Albert Frey. Loewy had recruited a design team consisting of experienced designers and former Loewy employees,
John Ebstein and
Robert Andrews, as well as a young student from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena named
Tom Kellogg. The team gathered in
Palm Springs and sequestered themselves in the house leased solely for the purpose of developing the new Avanti design for Studebaker.
