Air travel has a unique, global style. Airline examines every aspect of this style, from the exterior and interior design of planes to the advertising and haute couture. It uses hundreds of photographs and archival illustrations to show how the world has changed - and how it is in some ways very much the same. Dotted with intriguing bits of trivia and ephemera, the book documents the history of in-flight service and the changing role of the stewardess from nurse to sex-object and back again; shows how airlines use art and interior design to distinguish themselves from their competitors; and features ridiculous and awe-inspiring decorating schemes developed to offer travellers the ultimate in luxury at 35,000 feet. Brimming with fun and historical relevance, Airline offers an armchair travel experience unlike any other - a high-altitude technicolour trip down memory lane and into a world that many of us will never enter, and that some of us know all too well.

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Keith Lovegrove is the author of the highly successful book Airline: Identity Design and Culture. He founded the Lovegrove Associates design consultancy in London in 1985. In 1987 he won the PPA Magazine Designer of the Year award for Photography magazine.