Roger Field
Roger C. Field (born July 31, 1945 in London ) is an industrial designer and inventor with over 100 patents .
Live and act
Field grew up in London , Canterbury and Switzerland . He attended boarding schools The King's School, Canterbury and Aiglon College in Villars-sur-Ollon . He traveled to California in 1965 and studied industrial design with a degree from California College of the Arts. He came to Germany in 1972 .
Field is also known as a guitarist and has a. a. played with Chet Atkins , with whom he was friends, and Merle Travis .
His best known invention is the Foldaxe, a foldable electric guitar that he had built for Chet Atkins . It can be seen in Atkins' book Me and My Guitars . Field took one of his Foldaxe guitars into a Concorde and played the song Mr. Sandman on September 30, 1987 as a publicity stunt "through the sound barrier ". With the guitar Field won an important design award (Designer's Choice Award) in the USA . He was also congratulated in writing from Raymond Loewy for this .
Field has photographed numerous celebrities with the Foldaxe, including a. Keith Richards , Sir Mick Jagger , Sir Paul McCartney , Hank Marvin , David Copperfield , and Eric Clapton . He was also photographed with Woody Allen and Sir Peter Ustinov . It is thanks to the work of Roger Field that Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch settled their more than 10 year-long dispute and initiated a farewell tour of their old band The Shadows through Great Britain (2004) and Europe (2005).
Marcel Dadi composed his song Roger Chesterfield for Roger Field (CD Guitar Legend Volume 1 ).
Field is known worldwide in the media as Arnold Schwarzenegger's friend and English teacher in Munich in 1968.
Web links
- Modern Guitars Articles
- World News Network article
- Spiegel Online Article
- Berliner Morgenpost article
- Bavarian State Newspaper Article
- Marcel Dadi - Roger Chesterfield
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Field, Roger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Field, Roger C. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British industrial designer and inventor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |