They Don’t Get Much Bigger!
Story and photos by Graham Gauld unless othewise noted
Someday I might write a book about conventional industrial designers who also designed cars.
People like Giorgetto Giugiaro – who, apart from cars, designed Italy’s first high speed trains – or Raymond Lowey who designed the Studebaker Avanti but was best known for his industrial work.
Then there was Frenchman Paul Arzens whose major contribution to car design was his fabulous La Baleine, the whale, some eighty-eight years ago.
Arzens attended the famous Ecole dees Beaux Arts in Paris and was best known as a painter before becoming an industrial designer. One of his first creations was shown at the sensational 1938 Paris auto show where art-nouveau was truly reflected in cars as it also saw the public showing of Figoni et Falaschi’s remarkable Delahaye 165 Cabriolet. [Read more…] about Paul Arzens and The Whale