"Sensuous Steet" Art Deco Cars

Museum exhibit of super-awesome art deco car designs.

http://fristcenter.org/calendar-exhibitions/detail/sensuous-steel

Teaser:

Website has more photos.

David

Wow I had no idea that is coming and I work right up the street. I'm glad you posted this.

ROADTRIP!

This exhibit at the Frist Museum, PLUS a stopover at the Lane Motor Museum! Awesome!!

I'm having trouble breathing I'm so excited!- Don't tell my wife...she'll feel threatened!

Simply stunning.

Holy crap. Thanks for posting that. I am only an hour and half away.

What's the little woody at 0:20 in the video?

I generally have no interest in pre-war cars, but the art deco stuff is indeed stunning. The designs and what it took to manufacture those designs were such wretched excess--in a really good way. Lightyears ahead of their time.

I am such a sucker for some Art Deco, probably my favorite period in design/architectural history.

Closely followed by the somewhat campy Googie style from the 50s/60s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture

Whoa. Something cool, and it's actually in my backyard. Awesome.

Wow. I may fire up the F100 and break her in on a road trip to see that. Only 2.5 hours away.

Cadzilla.

e_pie wrote: I am such a sucker for some Art Deco, probably my favorite period in design/architectural history. Closely followed by the somewhat campy Googie style from the 50s/60s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture

I'm unfamiliar with that term and yet I'm quite fond of that jet-age style!

My favorite is mid-century modernism--as cliche as that is. I could pleasure myself to the Case Study houses.

I'm embarrassed to point out that I misspelled the title of the exhibit, it is "Sensuous Steel," not "Sensuous Steet."

My bad. :-(

David

DWNSHFT wrote: I'm embarrassed to point out that I misspelled the title of the exhibit, it is "Sensuous Steel," not "Sensuous Steet." My bad. :-( David

It's ok.. you were probably drooling...