A selection of makes and models
The enthusiasm for adult ‘colouring-in’ has resulted in numerous titles being published over recent months, covering subjects such as flowers, animals and decorative patterns, with links to mindfulness and art therapies. The one area that hasn’t been targeted is the more structured and mechanical approach, which would appeal to the male market. The Haynes classic cutaways fit the bill perfectly, and the variety of cars included in the owners’ colouring manual have wide appeal across all ages. Cutaway Colouring contains over 180 cutaways, along with a brief history about the classic Haynes Manual.
From its earliest moments in Paris to the 18th Fairway at Pebble Beach, from Blenheim Palace in England and on to the Far East, the Concours d’Elegance has long been the pedestal upon which the collector car world has placed its automotive idols. In Concours Retrospective, author Richard Adatto takes you from a time when horseless carriages were adorned with flowers to the modern day phenomenon where the automobile as an art form now commands a global audience. Sandra Button introduces the book while Dennita Sewell, Fashion Curator at the Phoenix Art Museum presents the longstanding connection between couture and concours. Illustrated with more than 200 archival photographs, recent images by Ron Kimball, Tim Scott , Winston Goodfellow and Dirk de Jager and modern studio photography by Michael Furman, Concours Retrospective will lead you on a grand tour of automotive excellence.
Throughout history, flowers have accompanied the deceased to their final resting place. At first, flowers were carried in the hearse with the casket, or in a separate carriage. With the advent of the automobile funeral, flowers were transported to the church or cemetery in big touring cars with their tops let down. But in the1930s an entirely new kind of funeral vehicle — the Flower Car — blossomed in America. Flower cars were built on all makes of chassis, from luxury Packards, Cadillacs, LaSalles and Buicks to Pontiacs and Chevy El Caminos. The only book ever dedicated to these unique professional cars documents the evolution of the flower car from the 1930s to the long, low coupes de fleur still being built today. A bonus feature includes a section on the other workhorse of the funeral home fleet, the Service Car, which transported the deceased from home or hospital to the funeral parlor and hauled caskets and other funeral service paraphernalia to the church or cemetery.
Painters used to arrange flowers and fruit, thereby creating compositions for their paintings. Photographer Tim Maxeiner has done the same with cars and houses, creating a unique series of American still lifes. These organic units of houses and cars were photographed mainly in the port district of San Pedro in his adopted home of Los Angeles.
