Beschrijving
Citroën the complete story.
In this new view of the Citroën story, automotive/aviation writer and design specialist Lance Cole investigates not just the details of the cars of Citroën, but the aeronautical and cultural origins that lay behind Citroën’s form and function. The book digs deep into the ethos of Automobiles Citroën to create a narrative on one of the greatest car manufacturers in history. Using interviews, translations, archive documents and specially-commissioned photographs, the Citroën journey is cast in a fresh perspective. It explains in detail the influences upon Citroën design: Voisin, Lefebrve, Bertoni, Boulanger, Mages, Opron and recent Citroen designers such as Coco, Blakeslee and Soubirou. As well as all the men of the great period of 1920s-1970s expansion, it also cites less well-known names of Citroën’s French engineering, design, and influence such as Cayla, Gerin, Giret, Harmand, Dargent and others, to give a full picture of Citroën heritage.
The book provides in-depth analysis of all major Citroën models with an engineering and design focus and profiles key individuals and cars up to the present day and Citroën’s ‘DS’-branded resurgence. It features many newly commissioned photographs, rare archive drawings and interviews with Citroën owners. Researched amongst leading Citroën experts and restorers, Lance Cole provides a fresh perspective on the Citroen car manufacturer, its design language and the legacy of its extraordinary engineering which will be of great interest to all Citroën and motoring enthusiasts. Superbly illustrated with 329 colour photographs, many newly commissioned along with rare archive drawings.
English, hardcover, 272 pages, 2014.
ISBN 9781847976598.
