Starting in September 1945, Lowen designed and made wooden salad bowls, trays and lazy susans with Ernest Rodeck under the name of FLER.[1] He manufactured a Fred Ward-designed chair for the Myer department store in Melbourne, Victoria. Between 1955 and 1958, Lowen designed the SC55 and SC58,[3] the Aluminium Shell Chair, mahogany fold-out extension table and cane back chairs.[citation needed] The Narvik dining and lounge ranges were released in 1961,[3] the Fleronde (1964/65), dining setting (1966/67), desk and chair for the Australian Exhibition at Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,[1] and Flerena in 1968.[citation needed]
Lowen started Twen in 1968[1] and designed the Twen-1 range (1968) and Twen-2 in 1969. In 1970 Lowen designed the T-21 range and model T-4. In 1972 Twen was reborn as Tessa. The T-6 (1973), the T-8 range (with and without armrests) designed in 1976, and the T-9 followed. In the 1980s Lowen designed the Delmont (1980), Sarina (1981) and Sling (1981).[citation needed]
In May 1987 Lowen became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).[4] He wrote an autobiography Fred Lowen: Dunera Boy, Furniture Designer, Artist, which was published in 2001.[5] He died in Melbourne in 2005.
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^ abcd"DIA Design Hall of Fame". Design Institute of Australia web site. Design Institute of Australia. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
^"Search Australian Honours - Simple Search". It's an Honour - Australia Celebrating Australians. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Government of Australia. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
^Lowen, Fred (2001?), Fred Lowen: Dunera Boy, Furniture Designer, Artist, Prendergast Publishing, Castlemaine Victoria, ISBN0 9587850 3 1