Stile Transatlantico /Transatlantic Style:
Here we have the lavish and impressive book, authored and curated by Classic car historian, consultant, concours judge, and TV personality DONALD OSBORNE.
This book is the companion to Museum exhibitions of the same name at the Museo dell' Automobile in Turin, Italy, and the Blackhawk museums in Danville, California. The vehicles included in this book were exhibited. The focus is on the influence that the Italian design houses had, and how this translated into some of the most magnificent works of Automobile art. Many of the design cues were adopted by the American car manufacturers in later models.
Text is in English and Italian.
Transatlantic Style- A Romance of Fins and Chrome is the eagerly awaited book that premiered at the Pebble Beach
Concours d’Elegance in 2017 as a spectacular large-format hardcover edition, telling the
compelling story of this rich creative exchange, the societal and economic forces that helped to
drive it and the personalities that populated it. It is the first book ever written on a topic that is
arguably the one of the most important and relevant in the collector car industry today. Author
Donald Osborne, the greatest-known ‘Transatlantic Style’ expert of our time, is the brilliant mind
behind this study, which could otherwise have been a documentation of his great life passions:
mid-century art & design, Italian culture and automobiles. In partnership with the Blackhawk
Automotive Museum in Danville, California, he has curated this special exhibition with the same
title of the book that opened this week and runs through the end of September.
“My goal in creating this Transatlantic Style project is to reveal to a larger world the remarkable
work of brilliant designers from this fertile period and how much it was shaped by this crosscultural exchange,” says Author and Historian Donald Osborne. “Our culture and values today are the result of our pasts and perhaps with a greater understanding we can see what truly open minds in full creative flower can achieve.”
This beautifully produced book is offered in very good condition, having been carefully looked after in my collection, since new. It has very minor evidence of previous reading only, and the dust wrapper, outer boards, spine and the inner pages are good.
The book runs to 284 pages, printed on high quality gloss paper, with high quality binding and stout outer boards, these features combine to bring the weight to a higher level, It will be carefully wrapped and packed to arrive safely.
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