Dutch versus English

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY England: a silversmith named John Schuppe is making creamers in the shape of a cow. They prove somewhat popular. So much so that 100 years later the trend has spread to Holland and Germany. These continental models were sneered upon by the British, wont as we are to condescend, and modern Dutch was considered something that a creamer ought not be.

That, at least is what Aunt Dahlia said to hapless nephew Bertram Wooster in PG Wodehouse's superlative Code of the Woosters. This marvellous book was brought to life on the small screen by Hugh Laurie as the gibbering Wooster and Stephen Fry as his fish-eating gentleman's gentleman. Watch this episode carefully: at the end you might see why the appeal of a car is not always obvious at first sight. Some things go unnoticed when it comes to the way a car looks, and this blog attempts to articulation the discretions that so many designers work so hard to define. It is the best, if perhaps the only reason why a blog about car design is called The Silver Cow Creamer.