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Article: Ford Designer Brings Artist's Eye to Detroit Auto Show Display.
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- January 12, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 13 -- The star of the auto show is not a car. It's an entire exhibit, a $30-million, 96,000-square-foot piece of sculpture.
The principal artist has been working on the Ford Motor Co. display since March. He has seen it on a computer and in a conference-table-sized scale model. Now it's real, and as J Mays moves through it, every African wood accent and slab of Italian stone is a vision come to life.
From the second level, atop the bridge that soars above Ford and Lincoln and Jaguar and all their affiliated brands, Mays points to the back end of a black Mazda sedan parked on a floor of corrugated yellow ...