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The Beauty of Transport

Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so)

Category: France

November 20, 2019November 18, 2019

Cathedral Stations of Paris’s RER E (Haussmann – Saint-Lazare and Magenta, Paris, France)

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October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Parisine: Paris = Johnston: London (Parisine typeface by Jean Francois Porchez)

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October 11, 2017October 17, 2017

The Train That Never Was: Orient Express, A Transport Icon

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March 16, 2016March 5, 2016

Beautiful Robots, Dancing Alone (Millau Viaduct, France)

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February 17, 2016February 18, 2016

Fallen Angels: Concorde, a Transport Icon

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September 30, 2015January 24, 2016

Alphonse Mucha: Transport Artist for Hire

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July 8, 2015July 29, 2015

Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast

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February 25, 2015August 27, 2015

Snap! (Look-a-like Railway Stations)

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October 8, 2014October 28, 2015

Vincent van Gogh: Transport Artist

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June 11, 2014December 24, 2015

20,000 Leagues Under the Streets (Arts et Metiers Metro station, Paris, France)

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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January 15, 2014June 15, 2016

Like Father, Like Son (the transport paintings of Camille and Lucien Pissarro)

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December 4, 2013June 15, 2016

When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)

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October 23, 2013August 15, 2015

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

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August 7, 2013August 13, 2015

Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)

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June 19, 2013August 20, 2020

Vive Versailles! Vive le RER! (RER Line C promotional wraps, Paris, France)

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June 2, 2013August 12, 2015

asides: Très Chic Trams / Gold Standard Metros

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March 22, 2013August 10, 2015

Sound of l’overground (SNCF Station Chimes, France)

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March 13, 2013August 10, 2015

Tops for Bottoms (Public Transport Bench Design and Styling)

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January 23, 2013August 6, 2015

One Ring to Rule Them All (Homme de Fer, Strasbourg, France)

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December 19, 2012August 6, 2015

Bird of Paradise (Gare de Saint-Exupéry TGV, Lyon, France)

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