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0Official: Louis Chevrolet honored with giant chrome bust in Swiss home town 1332505680
Sure, we think of Chevrolet as an American automaker. One of the most American, at that. But its eponymous founder wasn't born in these United States. He was born in Switzerland. La Chaux-de-Fonds, to be exact, and so to celebrate the brand's 100th centenary, it has commissioned a local artist to ...
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Pirelli teams up with Scott Campbell for tire tattoo art [w/video] 1319720280
Pirelli teamed up with tattoo artist Scott Campbell for a special project at the tire manufacturer's newest flagship store in Milan, Italy. Campbell turned his skill with a needle and ink to tire sculpting. Using a gouge, the artist inscribed images of an eye, a heart and a skull into the tread ...
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Jaguar E-Type celebrated with Goodwood sculpture 1309559520
Every year, the Goodwood Festival of Speed selects one automaker as its featured marque and commissions a unique sculpture in its honor. With the iconic Jaguar E-Type celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Goodwood has picked Jaguar for the seat of prestige at this year's event, and this is ...
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Featured: Dutch artist makes automotive masterpieces from scrap wood 1306092780
Dutch artist Diedrich Kraaijeveld makes photorealistic sculptures of cars from painted pieces of wood. That's impressive enough, but here's the best part: Kraaijeveld's pieces are assembled from painted pieces of wood he scavenges and recycles. In other words, these perfectly color-matched and ...
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If These Walls Could Talk: John DeLorean's Roman sculptures for sale 1296318720
John DeLorean's bas-relief sculptures – Click above for high-res image gallery To call John DeLorean eccentric would be an understatement. Envisioning a stainless steel-bodied sports car with gullwing doors and actually bringing it to market requires no less a character. The auto magnate ...
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Lorenzo Quinn's "Vroom Vroom" sculpture arrives in central London 1295996400
Vroom Vroom by Lorenzo Quinn – Click above for high-res image galleryEver get the feeling that your car is little more than an oversized toy? Lorenzo Quinn evidently did. The sculptor took the very first car he ever bought – an original Fiat 500 – and transformed it into the ... -
Maybach turns Patron of the Arts with Julian Schnabel and the Louvre 1291903380
"Queequeq – The Maybach Sculpture" by Julian Schnabel – Click above for high-res image galleryThere's no lack of automobiles created to date that you might categorize as rolling sculptures. Maybach's limousines may not be one of them, but the top-tier Daimler marque would like that ... -
Priory Fine Arts flies the Spirit of Ecstasy with reproduction sculptures 1290378660
Spirit of Ecstasy sculpture by Priory Fine Arts – Click above for high-res image galleryThough hood ornaments were once commonplace on high-end automobiles, they've all but completely gone the way of the dodo. Mercedes-Benz sedans still use the simple but iconic three-pointed star, and its ... -
Resinating the Essential: Infiniti offering limited-edition sculpture with Louis Vuitton case 1289948460
Infiniti Essence sculpture – Click above for high-res imagesRolling sculpture is how you might describe the Infiniti Essence show car. When it was unveiled in Geneva last year it stole the show, and now the Japanese luxury marque is following up with a limited-edition sculpture of the car ... -
Ice Cube: Everyone's favorite boxy Nissan chills in London with famed tattoo artist 1266505140
Nissan Cube ice sculpture – Click above for high-res image galleryWith such a strong focus on design, we knew it wouldn't be long before the Nissan Cube was transformed into some sort of life-size art project. And that's exactly what legendary celebrity tattoo artist Henry Hate has done, ...

