Car Design as High Style, 1930-1965

Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H-6C Xenia: 1937
This beauty recalls the stylish aristocratic European world that disappeared amid the fury of World War II. Custom-built, the long, rounded body resembles the fuselage of an airplane, and the curved, glass windshield was later adopted by manufacturers for mass-market cars starting in the 1950s.

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