{"product_id":"glamour-road-color-fashion-style-and-the-midcentury-automobile-9780764363900","title":"Glamour Road: Color, Fashion, Style, and the Midcentury Automobile","description":"This highly visual book will appeal to automotive history buffs, classic car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in midcentury fashion and design. \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplore how glamour, fashion, design, and styling became the focus of automotive marketing in the postwar years. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe dramatic photography, elegant fashion, and use of color and materials in midcentury automotive marketing created a groundswell of desire for new cars. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMuch of the marketing imagery of the period hasn't been published since it first came out, and this book features more than 400 photos, illustrations, auto brochures, and advertisements.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith the expansion of the suburbs after WWII, women suddenly needed cars of their own. By adopting the fashion industry's yearly model changes, as well as hiring many designers and stylists from the fashion industry, the automobile industry made a direct appeal to the rising sophistication and influence of women. \u003cem\u003eGlamour Road\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a journey, detailing how women and fashion directly influenced the traditionally male-dominated auto industry in the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeff Stork curates a large private automobile collection in Palm Springs, California, and Tom Dolle is an award-winning graphic designer and the creative director at Destination PSP, a product design company in Palm Springs, California. Together, Jeff and Tom produced the Cul de Sac Experience, which has become one of the most talked-about, photographed, and documented events for Modernism Week, celebrating classic cars as an integral part of modernist design. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDolle, Tom:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jeff Stork is a classic car historian, writer, and researcher. He spent his career in the automobile industry, with over 20 years of marketing experience with the Big Three. He curates a large private automobile collection in Palm Springs, California.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStork, Jeff:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tom Dolle is an award-winning graphic designer with 30 years as a design studio owner in New York and 20 years as an adjunct professor in Pratt Institute's Graduate Communication Design program. He is the creative director at Destination PSP, a product design company in Palm Springs, California.","brand":"Schiffer Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520762548498,"sku":"9780764363900","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_57b08b40-771d-4a7a-aadb-6ff2b0400b1f.jpg?v=1731090726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glamour-road-color-fashion-style-and-the-midcentury-automobile-9780764363900","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}