The Mullin Automotive Museum continues its celebration of French culture and automotive design with its latest exhibit, Cars and Carriages, now open through the end of 2016. Highlighting the finest examples of transportation from the end of the horse-drawn era and dawn of the automotive age, carriages and early motorcars from France’s prominent coach builders including Bugatti, Million-Guiet, Labourdette, Kellner and L’Renault will be shown in the main Mullin gallery. The conveyances on display have been curated from the Mullins’ own collection. “We are excited to offer our guests the opportunity to see these wonderful hand-built pieces of rolling sculpture in person,” said Peter Mullin, founder of the Mullin Automotive Museum. “La Belle Époque was a period of Western European history that lasted from the 1870s until the outbreak of World War I, and it translates to ‘The Beautiful Era.’ It was characterized by technological, scientific and cultural innovations in France, when the arts and sciences flourished. This unique period saw the final – and many say most beautiful – examples of horse-drawn transportation and the rise of the brass car era. These vehicles are really sculptural art, and we are proud to exhibit some of the jewels of that [...]
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