The Art Of The Automobile: The Ralph Lauren Car Collection – Opening

The Museum of Decorative Arts in the city of Paris premiered Ralph Lauren’s car collection. Patiently assembled over several decades, Ralph Lauren’s collection, stored in the United States, home to some of the most extraordinary treasures of automobile history. This exhibition is his first presentation in Europe and comes echoing Bolide Design, the first event dedicated to the automobile by Les Arts Decoratifs in 1970.

Ralph Lauren’s collection consists exclusively of exceptional vehicles. It extends to the latest supercars, represented here by the McLaren F1. Bentley, Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche, Ferrari show in this course, from the late 1920s until the early 1960s, technological and aesthetic of the car. The aerodynamics, including the consideration will increase during that time, bodybuilders led to forms of increasingly fluid, enclosing the mechanical elements of the power lines which often reflect these exceptional cars.

The competition, with his relentless pursuit of reliability and speed, is the common thread connecting these vehicles, each of which contains a wealth of innovations. Different approaches to design are discernible, some more rational, more intuitive, but all show a great beauty can arise from the search for maximum efficiency: beauty of the line, but also from retail or body mechanics, the design is just as pretty as the contours of the body. Some cars were designed exclusively for racing, other, recognizable by their luxurious furnishings, for road use of “grand touring”, knowing that the borders between these two areas were not always rigorous.

Through this course, a true history of car design is proposed. It’s also a look at the collection of a passionate idea that creative style and the search for beauty.

The official opening will take place tomorrow and the exhibition will be on view until August 28, 2011.

Info and photos Via Glltn