Barrie Down

Art Deco and British Car Design (eBook, ePUB)

The Airline Cars of the 1930s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Art Deco movement influenced design and marketing in many different industries in the 1930s, and the British motor industry was no exception.
This fascinating book is divided into two parts; the first explains and illustrates the Art Deco styling elements that link these streamlined car designs, describing their development, their commonality, and their unique aeronautical names, and is liberally illustrated with contemporary images. The book then goes on to portray British streamlined production cars made between 1933 and 1936, illustrated with colour photographs of surviving cars. This is a unique account of a radical era in automotive design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845844851
• Artikelnr.: 38353148

Autorenporträt

Barrie Down has had a fascination with cars from as early as he can remember, and his childhood drawings were almost exclusively cars, cars, and more cars. Those he owned as an impecunious bachelor were from the 1920s and '30s, from which he gained a healthy respect for the design and quality of vintage and thoroughbred cars. After emigrating to Canada in 1964, he spent over 20 years in the industrial design field, concerned primarily with transportation design. From his art historian wife, he learned to link design and social history, and discovered that the design of the cars he loved were strongly influenced by Art Deco.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgements
PART 1 – Why Art Deco?
1. Art Deco
2. Streamlining in Car Design
3. The evolution of Art Deco styling in British car design
4. 1934 - The Developing Styles of Art Deco
5. 1935 - The Classic Airline Year
6. 1936 and on - The Maturing of Art Deco Styling
PART 2 – The Cars & their Stories
7. Hillman Aero Minx
8. MG Airline coupe
9. SS1 Airline
10. Triumph Gloria Flow-free
11. Flying Standard
12. Riley Kestrel
13. Singer le Mans Coupe and Airstream
14. Talbot 105 Airline and 10 
15. Rover 14 Streamline
16. British Salmson Sports Saloons
17. AC and Alvis Saloons
Bibliography
Index