GEORGE–Philip B., was born on July 22, 1923, in San Bernardino, CA, and raised in San Diego, CA. and died peacefully on May 10th, in Cuernavaca, Mexico at age 94. He studied engineering at San Diego State College and Pomona College, California, 1941-1942. He served in the Air Force, getting his commission at Yale University in 1944, then was assigned to the Secret Radiation Lab at Harvard University and M.I.T. to develop radar bombing systems. He later served as a radar officer in the United States Air Force. After his war service he attended the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, 1945 to 1948. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1948 in Paris, France, working as an information officer in the Marshall Plan, Paris office. He directed operations for traveling exhibits of trains, barges, and trucks throughout 18 western European countries. In 1951 he served as a political consultant to the Italian government, before another assignment in the U.S. Foreign Service to Saigon, Vietnam and to Bangkok, Thailand. He served under General “Wild Bill” Donovan, then U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, as director of the information division. Upon leaving the foreign service in 1955 George joined the Raymond Loewy Design Office in New York as principal in charge of design for the U.S. National Exhibition in Damascus, Syria, for the U.S. Office of International Trade Fairs. Later, he was selected by the Reynolds Metals Company to join the corporate design staff to help develop a corporate image and design of facilities. In 1958 George became a principal in the office of the prominent industrial designer George Nelson in New York, was responsible for coordinating the entire design of the U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow, Russia, site of the famous Nixon-Khrushchev “kitchen debate”. In 1962 he served as assistant U.S. Commissioner for design of the Federal Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair for President Kennedy, depicting the challenges, problems and opportunities facing the U.S. at that time. George designed the 1965 exhibition at the New York World’s Fair honoring Sir Winston Churchill and his contributions to the western nations. George opened his design office in New York City in 1966, specializing in all areas of design – aircraft interiors and airport facilities for Braniff, Pan Am, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Air Florida; public interiors, hotels; office, restaurant and residential projects; cruise ships; museum projects for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; political campaigns in California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Pennsylvania, and the proposed visitors center at the United Nations, New York. He semi-retired but continued to design special projects with his wife, Gail. At the time of his death, he was finishing the last bit of work on a historical building in Asheville, NC, which will open on June 20th, 2018. He resided in New York City, Amenia, New York, and Cuernavaca, Mexico. In addition to his wife, Gail, he is survived by a daughter, Alexandra, step-daughters, Amy Kindred Bonanno, Lucy Kindred Galbraith and Jean Kindred Wilmerding, and four adoring step-grandchildren.
