Delage

In the 1920s and '30s and even beyond, a millionaire driver would first buy a high-functioning, factory-made chassis -- nothing more than four good wheels and a fine motor on a raw steel frame, manufactured by luxury automakers such as Delage and Packard.

'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik 2010

When car shopping in Paris in the '30s, Ms. Rogers went so far as to draw the changes she wanted to a Delage Aérosport Coupe—on the fender, with a tube of lipstick.

Thoroughly Marvelous Millie Cherie Burns 2011

While Ravel's "Schéhérazade" was directly inspired by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's earlier tone poem of the same title, Delage—eventually a Ravel student—composed his "Four Hindu Poems" having been fired by music he heard while touring India with his parents in 1912.

Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

Serge Yves Delage is the executive chef for La Paloma, and Azul will sizzle your taste buds as much as this gifted chef has sparked the passion of peers and critics around the world.

Natalie Pace: Following Prince Harry To The American Southwest Natalie Pace 2011

The younger generation of French composers—represented on the ASO program by Ravel and Delage—perpetuated French Orientalism into the early 20th century.

Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

Chef Delage has been named to the Top 100 Names in Travel by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine and is one of only 60 chefs in the United States to have been inducted into the exclusive Académie Culinaire de France.

Natalie Pace: Following Prince Harry To The American Southwest Natalie Pace 2011

Or, rather, open the pages of 'French Curves' Coachbuilt Press, 248 pages, $95 and be transported to 1920s and 1930s France, when the Delahaye, Delage and Talbot-Lago companies were turning out jaw-dropping cars with streamlined Art Deco curves and details that might include scalloped-wood interior trim or a roll-down windshield.

Photo-Op: Fantastique! 2011

Of course it has helped that there are more doping controls this year, says Mickael Delage, a 25-year-old rider for the Francaise des Jeux.

The Sound of Frenchmen Gloating John W. Miller 2011

Though the eerily spinning motives and demonic orchestral gestures in Franck's "Les Djinns" recall Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," almost every phrase of Delage's "Four Hindu Songs" evokes Raga melodies, instrumental sonorities and articulation of authentic Indian music.

Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

Sure, you could claim that the curves of the fenders on a 1937 Hispano-Suiza H-6C Xenia are as much to be admired as the shoulders of the Venus de Milo; that the radiator grille on a Delage D8 120-S, a car also from 1937, is as impressive as the flowing lines of a Renaissance engraving.

'The Allure of the Automobile' at Atlanta's High Museum by Blake Gopnik 2010