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Article: CARAVANS: Drag race.(Caravan designers)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- July 19, 2007
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Caravan designers are now thinking outside the beige box, with streamlined styles and innovations that complement today's active, outdoor lifestyles. They also enable users to take a break without adding to their air miles, argues Trish Lorenz
Caravan design is a non sequitur. They may offer flexibility and freedom in travel, but caravans make little in the way of a style statement. Often perceived as a quintessentially English activity, the best caravan design arguably comes from the US in the shape of the space-age aluminium Airstreams, which date back to the 1950s. Since then there's been little progress of design note within the industry. The ubiquitous ...