Stateroom with Individual Work and Sleep Mode
1968
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1968
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Stateroom with Individual Work and Sleep Mode is a 1968 by Raymond Fernand Loewy, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a compact room layout for NASA’s Skylab project. It’s one of 10,000+ design sketches made by Raymond Fernand Loewy’s team in 1968. Skylab was NASA’s big space station push in the late 1960s. Loewy’s studio shaped how astronauts would sleep, work, and live up there. See more of Loewy’s space designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing from NASA's 1960s Skylab project depicts a cylindrical habitat module with a seated astronaut at a desk, secured by a thigh strap while using a telephone; the room features brown and orange tones, wall-mounted controls, and a photograph of a mother and child. A circular floor hatch leads to a lower deck, and an adjacent corridor contains orange doors, with visible piping above. The sheet is one of roughly 10,000 designs produced by Raymond Loewy’s studio, though authorship may belong to an assistant given the colored rendering. The project’s design innovations influenced later space…
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