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Cadillac Seville. This luxury sedan looks like a European touring car with added muscle tone. The handling is tight, the instrumentation is easy to read, and the STS version is refreshingly free of the chrome that gets slapped willy-nilly on other American cars. The zebrawood accents on the interior are real, not the plastic imitations earlier models used. It is the first luxury car in years that GM execs can truly call world class. At a $34,975 base price, it isn't cheap, but with Japanese and German competitors priced at as much as $8,500 more...
...long ago-a matter of 20 years-that art nouveau was considered a minor style, deservedly forgotten. Those tendriled doorknobs and flowing pedestals, that panoply of rare materials (zebrawood, pâte de verre, lapis lazuli, champlevé enamel), that air of hothouse elegance, glazed and nuanced-what did such things amount to but decoration? And what was decoration but a sin against the purity of modern...
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