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Sources are eclectic, results mixed, but one thing is certain: car design is being forced up an ever tightening spiral of creativity. These machines are memorials of our tastes, yearnings and capabilities. They have layers of meaning and can, as Henry Ford knew, be read like a book...if only you know how. The story of the car is the story of how the objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression. This book tells that story in a series of case studies which reveal national characteristics: American flair, German technical suprematism, French vernacular chic, gorgeous Italian sculpture, English antiquarianism, Japanese ingenuity, Swedish responsibility.Cars featured appear in chronological date order from the 1908 Ford Model T to 2003 BMW 5 Series. The chosen cars will be specially photographed in a uniform style and reproduced in very textured, 4 colour b/w so as to distance this book from the cliches and conventions of specialist automotive publishing and to highlight form and shape. Each picture will be accompanied by a short critical essay including essential historical material together with colourful anecdotage and quotations as well as a persuasive aesthetic appraisal of each vehicle. This lavish and beautifully designed book is the gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados.
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Stephen Bayley is one of the world's best known commentators on modern culture. In 1989 he was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's top artistic honour, by the French Minister of Culture. Since 1990 Stephen Bayley has been a design consultant working on imaginative communications projects for Ford, Jaguar, Fiat, Audi and BMW amongst others, and wrote the creative strategy for Mercedes-Benz' advertisments. He has written for Car magazine for the past 25 years. Stephen was awarded PPA Columnist of the Year for his car column in GQ (which ran for about eight years) and he wrote very popular regular car columns for The Daily Telegraph and Management Today. He is also well-known as an outspoken commentator on art and design and contributes regularly to The Times, The Daily Mail, The Observer, The Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Spectator, The Los Angeles Times, High Life, New Statesman,The Independent, and The Independent on Sunday as well as many trade and professional publications.
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Format:Hardcover
Simplicity is always the best, if the hardest to perfect. This book is a work of art in itself, easy to peruse yet devastatingly accurate. The photographs are stunning in their clarity.
A few omissions if you believe British cars were better than they were. Nothing missing, nothing unnecessary.
Perhaps not flawless - which goes to show it was written by an individual. A jewel of a book. Should be £25 minimum!
Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything
A few omissions if you believe British cars were better than they were. Nothing missing, nothing unnecessary.
Perhaps not flawless - which goes to show it was written by an individual. A jewel of a book. Should be £25 minimum!
Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is an exquisitely-produced work of art. All the chosen cars are beautifully photographed in black and white so that the reader can appreciate the scultural forms without being diverted by colour. Stephen Bayley's selection of cars is challenging and controversial, and as ever, his commentaries are carefully crafted. He obviously loves cars and is a committed aesthete.
Every car enthusiast, every industrial designer, should buy this book.
Every car enthusiast, every industrial designer, should buy this book.
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Getting on my hobby horse again, every image of every car, has a stunning quality and clarity - a credit to the photographer, and then the so called "designer" places every one across two pages and the spine. A device better suited to preventing the proper enjoyment of the book, the appreciation of the car, and to display incompetancy in book design cannot be imagined. Nevertheless, an amazingly well considered selection of the most iconic cars. I can suggest a few that should have made the final cut, however, all that are here thoroughly deserve their place. Interesting how there are very few from the '80's and '90's shown.
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