MUSE
sat on executives’ desks while others
were used by travel agencies to attract
customers.
Going Places was organized by
guest curator, Matthew Bird, a professor of industrial design at Rhode Island
School of Design. “The models,” said
Bird of the Sharf’s collection, “are incredibly detailed. The concept sketches
present radical new realities. The renderings show, in an amazingly vivid realistic way, what a design will look like
long before it actually exists, and the
amount of communicating the objects
do—about location, aspiration, technology, who we were, and who we thought
we could become—is amazing.”
Merging art and architectural elements, Going Places celebrates the
design ingenuity and engineering that
revolutionized transportation. It invites viewers to share Sharf’s passion
for the evolution of travel through a
dialogue of design and function—
well worth the trip! O n V iew
This page (top to bottom): Aerocar: The Flying Automobile, Evan Sharer, ca. 1956; Gouache on illustration board.
Poster: Over 200 Miles Per Hour. International Air Races St Louis October 1-2-3.
Aeronautical Exhibition Aero Congress Air Institute Veiled Prophet; Designer: Carl Walter, American, 1923; Color lithograph.
Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection.
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