Category:Alexis de Sakhnoffsky designs

Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky (Алесис де Сакчноффскы, 1901-1964) was a industrial and automobile designer. His designs won many concours d'élégance in Europe (among them the Grand Prix de Monaco five consecutive times 1926-1930 with coachwork on Minerva, Rolls-Royce, Packard, and Cord) and worked for Carrosserie Van den Plas of Brussels, where he developed the Victoria convertible body style. In 1928, he became head of design at the Hayes Body Corp., where he did the the 1929-1932 Marmon, the 1929-1930 Roosevelt, the 1929-1932 Peerless, 1930-1933 American Austin, and the facelift for the Durant-derived 1931 DeVeaux. He was a counselor for Auburn, Packard, and White Truck, and designed the famous streamlined truck bodies for Labatt's. For Nash, he designed the limited-production Ambassador Eight Special Cabriolet. Among his other work are bicycles, Emerson radios, and even carousel cars. Pieces of his "streamlined furniture" were in production decades after their introduction.