aerodynamic hearses (gang gang)

"[I]n the recent past we have had the aerodynamic style, which has been applied not only to aeroplanes and cars but to electric irons, perambulators and armchairs. On one occasion I even saw an aerodynamic hearse, which is about as far as the aerodynamic style can go (speeding the departing guest?)."Bruno MunariI looked up some aerodynamic hearses after this, to see if people still make them.not too shabbySomeone also figured that they might as well throw out the dead person in the back and go faster.Some hearses just need to be grand and not fast. Here's one I saw recently.There's a school of thought common among designers or artists that say that the above hearses are a monstrosity. They lack coherence, in the sense that its form does not follow its function—or as Munari would say, it is as though a fig is growing out of willow trees. There's something distressing about it.I think I'd agree that beauty comes from when form follows function. But I do think that there is some function…