by Wallace Wyss - I can’t say when it was when I fell in love with “streamline moderne.” Maybe it was when my parents bought an Electrolux vacuum cleaner in the early ‘50s and I enjoyed its streamline styling and polished metal trim. Maybe it was … [Read more...]
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A “Primitif” Love For “Streamline Moderne”
Filed Under: Classic Cars, People Tagged With: Art Deco, Bugatti, Car Art, Charles Eames, FIGONI & FALASCHI, Giuseppe Figoni, LETOURNEUR & MARCHAND, Marcel Pourtout, Mullin Museum, Ovidio Falaschi, Raymond Loewy, Roland De Graffenried De Villars, Saoutchik, Streamline Moderne, Thomas HIBBARD, Wallace Wyss, Wallace Wyss Art
An Artist’s Discovery of Streamline Moderne Classic Car Designs
Text and art by Wallace Wyss - Automotive artists tend to pick their era. They like ‘50s cars, they don’t like prewar cars, they like hot rods, they don’t like sports cars. But I as a latecomer to the fine art world (for 40 years I was an … [Read more...]
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