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Concours d'Elegance: Dream Cars and Lovely Ladies
Patrick Lesueur
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Description for Concours d'Elegance: Dream Cars and Lovely Ladies
Hardcover. This book offers a delicious journey back in time to witness the golden age of the concours d'elegance. Over fifty coachbuilders are represented in the photographs and an index is provided. Num Pages: 208 pages, 200 mono photographs. BIC Classification: WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 297 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1564. 208 pages, 200 mono photographs. This book offers a delicious journey back in time to witness the golden age of the concours d'elegance. Over fifty coachbuilders are represented in the photographs and an index is provided. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WGCB. Dimension: 249 x 297 x 22. Weight: 1570.
Surely no form of contest has ever equalled the marriage of luxury and ostentation offered for many years by the great concours d'elegance. Elitist perhaps but their sheer magnificence seems just as fascinating now as it did in the first half of the 20th Century. It should be remembered that these events allowed the most celebrated artists and artisans boundless freedom of expression. Everything was put into the melting-pot to achieve one end - the realisation of a dream. The vital step for organisers of such events was to choose a venue famous for its air of leisurely ... Read more
Surely no form of contest has ever equalled the marriage of luxury and ostentation offered for many years by the great concours d'elegance. Elitist perhaps but their sheer magnificence seems just as fascinating now as it did in the first half of the 20th Century. It should be remembered that these events allowed the most celebrated artists and artisans boundless freedom of expression. Everything was put into the melting-pot to achieve one end - the realisation of a dream. The vital step for organisers of such events was to choose a venue famous for its air of leisurely ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Dalton Watson
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1564g
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Loughborough, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854432506
SKU
V9781854432506
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