Donald Deskey, a pioneering industrial designer of the late 1920's and 1930's studied at the University of California, the Mark Hopkins Art School, Art Institute of Chicago and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He was a member of the Art Director's Club. the Society of Industrial Designers and the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. He was art director at an advertising agency before switching disciplinesand becoming an industrial designer. His best known work are his interior designs for Rockefeller Center's Radio Music Hall. He exhibited at the Paris Expo, 1937, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, the Chicago World's Fair, 1933, the New York World's Fair 1939 and the Museum of Modern Art. He was a frequent contributor of magazine articles for various publications and taught at New York University.