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Interwar France was a period of exceptional creativity, innovation, and turbulence. Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France explores the role of the automobile as both subject and object from 1918–1939, untangling the impact of fashion, interiors, architecture, aviation, and the avant-garde on French automobile design and production. Roaring brings together more than 100 works of art and design, including paintings, photographs, prints, posters, furniture, lighting, architectural plans, fashion, textiles, and automobiles. Expansive and interdisciplinary, Roaring illuminates the rich, creative ecosystems that nourished this golden age of French automotive design and influenced modern concepts of mobility. The exhibition highlights the bold, untethered visions of figures like Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Le Corbusier, André  Citroën, and Josephine Baker, who embraced the automobile as a provocative expression of the modern age.