1930's concept car design

by Otto Hoffmann, attributed to

$4,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Exquisite drawing of a 1930s concept car. The old, established Willoughby firm of Utica, New York had a reputation for conservative, quality coachwork in 1930 when Viennese born Hoffmann was hired as draghtsman/designer. He quickly moved the company's design philosophy to the forefront of the streamline school, translating traditional luxury car body types such as this touring car into the modern idiom. Willoughby designed bodies for all the major luxury car firms. We have

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