Art Deco And British Car Design

Author : Barrie Down
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845842529
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Deco and British Car Design written by Barrie Down and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work about automotive styling, in particular the streamlined styling that defined what are now known as Airline cars. It explains and illustrates the Art Deco styling elements that link these streamlined car designs, and describes their development, their commonality, and their unique aeronautical names.

Author : Barrie Down
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845844858
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Deco and British Car Design written by Barrie Down and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about automotive styling, in particular the streamlined styling that defined what are now known as Airline cars. During the mid-1930s the majority of British car manufacturers and coachbuilders experimented with streamlined styling. This fashion was the result of Art Deco, an international movement that influenced design and marketing in many different industries, and produced some of the most unique and visually exhilarating cars ever produced in Britain. Part One of the book explains and illustrates the Art Deco styling elements that link these streamlined car designs, and describes their development, their commonality, and their unique aeronautical names. The stories of the individual cars, their designers, and their development, are told in Part Two. Here, Barrie Down has collected examples of all the significant British streamlined production cars made between 1933 and 1936, many of them still represented by beautifully restored survivors. The book is well illustrated with over 200 contemporary pictures and colour photographs of existing cars, many of which have never before been published. This book is an instructive and visual feast for all car lovers.

Author : Jonathan A. Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curves of Steel written by Jonathan A. Stein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe volume that explores the evolution of the streamlined automotive shape from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Author : Patricia Frantz Kery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500283530
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Deco Graphics written by Patricia Frantz Kery and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-scale study of the dynamic graphic design created in the three decades before World War II, when economic and political upheaval mixed with the pursuit of modernism and elegance to produce a style that came to be known as Art Deco. Chapters on posters, magazines, commercial design, books, and fashion and costume each feature a portfolio of stunning, often rare illustrations.

Author : Ken Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989114974
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rolling Sculpture written by Ken Gross and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Steacy
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811826631
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brightwork written by Ken Steacy and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rear bumper to the front hood, this work shows the minor masterpieces of design which were once used by all automobile manufacturers (and which helped to make them works of art on wheels) that have since become prized collectibles

Author : Richard Striner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411628
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington and Baltimore Art Deco written by Richard Striner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Deco buildings still lift their modernist principles and streamlined chrome into the skies of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Reflecting the confidence of modern mentality—streamlined, chrome, and glossy black—along with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan aspirations, Art Deco carried surprises, juxtaposing designs growing out of speed (racecars and airplanes) with ancient Egyptian and Mexican details, visual references to Russian ballet, and allusions to Asian art. While most often associated with such masterworks as New York’s Chrysler Building, Art Deco is evident in the architecture of many U.S. cities, including Washington and Baltimore. By updating the findings of two regional studies from the 1980s with new research, Richard Striner and Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing and mourn those that have been lost. This comparative study illuminates contrasts between the white-collar New Deal capital and the blue-collar industrial port city, while noting such striking commonalities as the regional patterns of Baltimore’s John Jacob Zinc, who designed Art Deco cinemas in both cities. Uneven preservation efforts have allowed significant losses, but surviving examples of Art Deco architecture include the Bank of America building in Baltimore (now better known as 10 Light Street) and the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington. Although possibly less glamorous or flamboyant than exemplars in New York or Miami, the authors find these structures—along with apartment houses and government buildings—typical of the Deco architecture found throughout the United States and well worth preserving. Demonstrating how an international design movement found its way into ordinary places, this study will appeal to architectural historians, as well as regional residents interested in developing a greater appreciation of Art Deco architecture in the mid-Atlantic region.

Author : Steven Heller
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Modern written by Steven Heller and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strikingly designed volume presents French Modern commercial graphic design in all its glory. Every aspect of French life in the lively and turbulent decades of the '20s and '30s is displayed in this rich compendium of highly stylized design concepts, including magazines, posters, brochures, and retail packages. From exhibition affiches proclaiming the dawn of a new cultural era and symbolic advertisements celebrating the marriage of man and machine to seductive perfume packages and exquisitely chic cocktail paraphernalia, this stunning survey offers a wealth of original artifacts - some never before seen in the United States - making it an essential reference for industrial designers, graphic artists, and anyone with an interest in the history of fine design and advertising.

Author : Bryan Catley
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Deco and Other Figures written by Bryan Catley and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book, now available in a revised edition, contains the most complete range of art deco figures ever published. It is based partly on the original importers catalogues and partly on the wide range of pieces handled by the author Bryan Catley - the leading specialist in the subject. Between the wars an entirely modern style of decorative sculpture emerged which was a complete break with the heavy romantic late nineteenth century schools, and was totally in sympathy with the vibrant young society of the 1920s. The use of bronze and ivory for a great number of these sensual figures in no way obscures the fact that many are of exceptionally high quality; add to this their sense of movement and rhythm and one realises that the large sums they now command is a reflection of a discriminative international collectors market.

Author : Patricia Bayer
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500280201
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Deco Interiors written by Patricia Bayer and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design--a "total look"--dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studios were established, notably in France and the United States, to serve the needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class intent on showing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic: the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vivid geometric carpet. Art Deco Interiors documents this flourishing of design ingenuity in Europe and America. Using contemporary photographs and illustrations of interiors, juxtaposed with modern photographs of individual pieces, it traces the stylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco. Patricia Bayer illustrates the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the establishment of the pure high style of the leading Paris ensembliers, and assesses the tremendous growth of jazzy, Streamline Moderne offshoots in the United States. Major chapters are devoted to large-scale designs for ocean liners, cinemas, theaters, offices, and hotels, and to the revival in the 1970s and 1980s of Deco as a decorative style.