Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Excalibur Series IV

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In today’s SIA Flashback, Langworth mentions Brooks Stevens’s Excalibur neoclassic, one of which just so happened to recently pop up on Hemmings.com. This 1982 Excalibur Series IV also just so happens to come from the same year of Langworth’s SIA article. From the seller’s description:
Finished in classic and desired Arctic White and Deep Red leather […]

SIA Flashback – SIA Profile of Brooks Stevens

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Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]