Roger C. Field

Roger C. Field ( born July 31, 1945 in London) is an industrial designer and inventor with over 100 patents.

Life and work

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 the California College of the Arts. He came to Germany in 1972.

Field is also known as a guitarist and has, inter alia, with Chet Atkins, with whom he was friends, and played Merle Travis.

His most famous invention is the Foldaxe, a collapsible electric guitar, which he had built for Chet Atkins. She is seen in Atkins book Me and My Guitars. Field took one of his guitars with Foldaxe in a Concorde and played the song Mr. Sandman on September 30, 1987 as a publicity stunt " by the sound barrier ." With the guitar Field won a major design award ( Designer's Choice Award) in the USA. He was also congratulated for writing of Raymond Loewy.

Field has photographed numerous celebrities with the Foldaxe, including Keith Richards, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Hank Marvin, David Copperfield, and Eric Clapton. Even with Woody Allen and Sir Peter Ustinov, he had his photo taken. It is thanks to the work of Roger Field, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch settled their more than 10 years of controversy and a farewell tour of her old band The Shadows of the UK (2004 ) and Europe (2005) initiated.

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.