Photo Gallery «The automobiles of Art Deco - reflections on the occasion of a 100th anniversary»
Art Deco has influenced automobile design like no other art style before or since. Automobiles created during the Art Deco period have rightly been described as "rolling works of art" or "sensual steel". This article looks back at the decorative art of coachbuilding and its typical features.
Rosengart Supertraction Mylord (1939) - Art Deco fittings and loudspeaker cladding in waterfall design
© Wolfram Hamann, 2018
Rosengart Supertraction Mylord (1939) - curved trim
© Wolfram Hamann, 2018
Bugatti T57 Galibier (1936, front) and Bugatti T57 Atalante (1938, rear) - both with two-tone paintwork. Note also the glass roof
© Wolfram Hamann, 2018
Bugatti T 57 C Cabriolet Vanvooren (1939) - modeled on the Delahye 165 Roadster from 1938
© Steve Burton, 2015
Model of the Audi Type C Jaray - in the special aerodynamics exhibition at the Audi museum mobile
© Audi AG, 2023
Duesenberg Coupé Simone - a fictitious car in the style of Art Déco, presented in 1998 as a 1:5 scale model
© Raffi Minasian, 1998
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