![]() Pronounced in French like déesse, that language’s word for “goddess,” the car received 80,000 order deposits during the show, a record that stood for six decades until the debut of Tesla’s Model 3 - which, whatever its respectability as a feat of design and engineering, will never have Roland Barthes to extol its beauty. And at the 1955 Paris Auto Show the world first beheld a car that, aesthetically speaking, might as well have been a spacecraft: the Citroën DS. ![]() The first two may have more direct claim to defining the “Space Age,” but only the third lay within reach of the average (or slightly above average) consumer. ![]() In the postwar Western imagination, modernity took three forms: the rocketship, the jetliner, and the automobile. ![]()
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