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David Rowland (other)
David Rowland may refer to: *David Rowland (industrial designer) (1924–2010), American industrial designer *David Rowland (property developer) David John Rowland (born 1945) is a British property developer, banker and financier. According to The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2019, he is worth £612 million. He is nicknamed 'Spotty'. The Rowland family is an investment adviser to Princ ... (born 1945), British property developer * David Rowland (translator) (1569–1586), Welsh translator {{hndis, Rowland, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rowland (industrial Designer)
David Lincoln Rowland (February 12, 1924 – August 13, 2010) was an American industrial designer noted for inventing the 40/4 Chair. The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is able to stack 40 chairs high. Early life and education David Lincoln Rowland was born on February 12, 1924, in Los Angeles, the only child of Neva Chilberg Rowland, a violinist and W. Earl Rowland, an artist, lecturer and teacher. In 1936 he moved with his parents to Stockton, California where his father became director of the Haggin Museum. In the summer of 1940, when he was 16, he took a course with László Moholy-Nagy, one of the founders of The Bauhaus school, at Mills College in Oakland, California on Basic Bauhaus Design. After graduation from Stockton High School in 1942, he studied drafting, and worked as a draftsman for the Rheem Manufacturing Co., drawing plans for war munitions, before entering military service in World War II. From 1943 through 1945 Rowland was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rowland (property Developer)
David John Rowland (born 1945) is a British property developer, banker and financier. According to The ''Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2019, he is worth £612 million. He is nicknamed 'Spotty'. The Rowland family is an investment adviser to Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Early life David Rowland was born in 1945 to the family of a scrap metal dealer. Business activities Rowland established Fordham Investment Group in 1965. In 1970, he sold his stake in Fordham for £2.4 million, and moved to France. In the 1970s, he took control of the shipping company Williams Hudson and the timber group Venesta International through Argo Caribbean Group Limited, a Bahamian company controlled by the trustees of a Rowland's family settlement. In 1989, Rowland acquired 34% interest in Idaho-based Gulf Resources & Chemical Corporation from the Barclay brothers. A controlling stake was bought through a property company Inoco Plc., which was controlled by a Panama-based company, Monaco Group F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
