Ross Lovegrove
Lovegrove’s career is a sequence of verified commissions—not a manifesto.
Cars
The object that reorganised the twentieth-century landscape.
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Citroën DS
Flaminio Bertoni
The Citroën DS is an industrial design for a mass-production automobile. Flaminio Bertoni co-styled it with André Lefèbvre. Paul Magès developed its hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension. It used hydropneumatic suspension and disc brakes — the first mass-production car to do so. It set new standards in ride quality, handling, and braking. It pushed the envelope in the ride vs. handling compromise possible in a motor vehicle. Its body design was aerodynamic and futuristic. Roland Barthes described it as looking as if it had 'fallen from the sky'. The DS Series 3 introduced directional headlights to automotive mass-production.
Luigi Colani
Colani proved that biodynamic form could sell — not as art, but as product.
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