Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything - Rilegato

Bayley, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1840915048 ISBN 13: 9781840915044

Casa editrice: Conran Octopus, 2008

Riassunto

The ultimate car book-a love letter to the most beautiful 86 cars ever manufactured by an award -winning car columnist and important cultural and design critic.
The story of the car is the story of how objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression. Memorials of our tastes, yearnings, and capabilities, these machines have layers of meaning and can (as Henry Ford knew) be read like a book . . if only you know how.
Stephen Bayley, car columnist, design authority and cultural commentator knows how, and in this opinionated volume, presents a spectacular study of achievements in car design. Bayley's 86 favorite designs range from the 1908 Ford Model T, to the 1961 Jaguar E-Type, to the 2003 BMW 5. All presented in chronological order, each automobile also makes a statement about the national character of the country of manufacture.
In addition, hundreds of ravishing photographs (including full-body, interior and detail shots) and an elegant slipcase, make CARS the perfect gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados.

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Recensione:

Have you ever heard of a Lincoln Zephyr? Turn to page 42 of this luxurious book, and see for yourself the 1935 model of that extraordinarily styled automobile. Style is whatthis oversized beauty of a book (which is itself the epitome of style) is all about. Accomplished automotive writer Bayley begins his breathtaking album of stunningblack-and-white photographs with the bold statement: "Car design is one of the distinctive, even defining, art forms of the twenty-first century." Further, he argues, car design is "our age's singular contribution to cultural history." Each car [was] selected because it "changed the conventional wisdom, lifted the game, raised the bar" in terms of style... Check out, in particular, the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. Wow! American opulence at its most dramatic.

(Brad Hooper, Booklist 2009-01-00)

Descrizione del libro:

The featured cars will be specially photographed and reproduced in very textured, 4 colour b/w to specifically highligh their form and shape; The book will be presented in a specially-designed gift slipcase; Stephen Bayley is one of the world's best-known authorities on design and popular culture; There are around 200,000 new car sales and 700,000 used car sales in UK every month; Stephen was awarded PPA Columnist of the Year for his car column in GQ magazine; This is a first - a really beautiful book on cars for aficionados.

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• Editore: Conran Octopus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1840915048
• ISBN 13: 9781840915044
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384