The Age of Combustion: Notes on Automobile Design

Stephen Bayley

ISBN 10: 1911422138 / ISBN 13: 9781911422136

Published by Circa Press, London. UK, 2021

About this Item

Illustrated boards, 228pp., 24 double-page duotone illustrations. Together with a wide-ranging introduction, this book reproduces 60 of Stephen Bayley's popular monthly columns for Octane, the outstanding classic car magazine where, for more than 10 years, he has provided the most consistent and insightful commentary on car culture, often based on privileged access to industry insiders. In publisher's original shrink wrap(BH)6/25.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1749344522625

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Age of Combustion: Notes on Automobile Design
• Publisher: Circa Press, London. UK
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911422138
• ISBN 13: 9781911422136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Automobiles

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Synopsis

The automobile is the ultimate analog machine and mankind’s most ingenious, seductive and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provided reference points for our notions of style, status and desire. In design terms, the Age of Combustion was as rich and varied as architecture’s Baroque – and far more popular. And now it is coming to an end, as the internal-combustion engine is superseded by the battery and cars become wheeled computers, running on AI not oil. Together with a wide-ranging introduction, this book reproduces 60 of Stephen Bayley’s popular monthly columns for Octane, the outstanding classic car magazine where, for more than 10 years, he has provided the most consistent and insightful commentary on car culture, often based on privileged access to industry insiders.

About the Author

Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum. Over the past 30 years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design. A lead columnist for Octane, the leading monthly classic car magazine, and the author of Cars: Freedom, Style, Sex, Power, Motion, Colour, Everything, he is one of the world’s most respected commentators on car culture.

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