sylvain viau's flying cars hover beside the french seaside
sylvain viau’s flying cars hover beside the french seaside
(above) lancia beta coupé 2000 (friend’s car)
all images courtesy of sylvain viau
french artist sylvain viau derived the idea behind his ongoing ‘flying cars’ series from a citroen, often nicknamed ‘flying carpet’ for its smooth handling and hydraulic suspension system. the idea of a floating vehicle, one that hovers above the ground rather than planted on its wheels, became something viau experimented with photographically, using vehicles of varying model, color and year of production. both his own and his friends’ cars have been adapted as the subject of the series, shot against the seascape of cherbourg, france. convertibles, custom paint jobs, four doors and two seem to be strangely weightless, floating above ground like an apparent vehicle from the future, despite some of them being produced in the 80s and 90.
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viau’s concept reminds us of a similar series by french photographer renaud marion — previously featured by designboom — who captured surrealistic scenes of iconic, classic cars in an imagined, retro-futuristic cityscape.
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When I’m looking at the rest of the cars – my brain get stucked and my eyes start looking for a wheels. But when I’m checking Citroens – they seems totally natural, like they were made for hovering…
Interestingly, this exact idea has been executed by another French photographer before: Renaud Marion.
Here is his series on flying cars in Switzerland: http://www.newlyswissed.com/in-switzerland-where-cars-can-fly
Clearly inspired by Renaud Marion’s Air Drive series ! A little too much to my taste…
It’s about time soomene makes (photoshops) a floating Lamborghini or Ferrari, other then some old cars, they would look more air-cutting and futuristic
The real origin of these flying cars is Citroën annoucement campaign for DS car, in 1959.
Who inspired who ? That’s a question…
http://www.laboiteverte.fr/publicite-citoen-ds-1959/
‘Clearly inspired by’ or exactly the same might be a better description!
how about Ben Sandler’s Tomorrowland? http://cargocollective.com/bensandler/Tomorrowland
Designing for future transportation technology.
This goes way back to at least 1955, when the DS was lauched and marketed as very futuristic (which it was). A lot of ads depicted the Citroen as a spaceship http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/old-citroen-ds-is-a-space-ship-48861_1.jpg