Italian automobile design

This book is about the most famous Italian cars and their creators. For more than a century, as an Italian automobile design has been hovering an aura of exclusivity. The Italian car is easily recognized and immediately. Even the unprofessional eye will tear out its characteristic appearance from the stream. What"s the secret? What is his character? First of all, in the national features that stylists and designers are embodied in the car. And if other manufacturers will need significant efforts in the search for national traditions, then Italian will also have to restrain themselves. The history of Italian automobile design was created by bright and very dissimilar people. As if in a symphonic orchestra, both "conductors" and virtuoso "soloists" stand out among them. The first - like Nucco Berton or Sergio Pinfarina - did not pick up a pencil, but they knew exactly which of the masters could be entrusted with the design and knew in advance that from under such a pencil they should leave. Others, for example, Giovanni Micelotti or Marcello Gandini trusted only their hands and always worked in solo mode. This book is written as a result of trips to the historical homeland of classical automobile design - to Italy. Automotive Italy is revealed to outsider with reluctance inherent in an engaged person who is forced to be distracted from the usual rhythm of daily work for the sake of idly asked questions. But the more valuable answers were the more valuable. The bodybuilder Carlo Guerra, the designers Marcello Gandini and Andreo Zagato, the designer of the F1 Bolids Mauro Forgieri, - conversations with them prompted to think about the origin of a certain phenomenon of Italian automobile design, in which people play the main role. They are the descendants of those who created the car glory of Piedmont, Modena, Ferrari brand and world brands Bertone and Pininfarina. Part of the material of the book is unique. For example, a conversation with the designer Marcello Gandini, the author of such auto -proceedings as Lamborghini Countach and Lancia Stratos. Maestro first accepted a journalist from Russia in his house, the foundation of which is dated to the 9th century ... In Moden, it was possible to find a place where you can see a completely surrealistic picture: as at the beginning of the 21st century according to the technologies for the manufacture of knightly latch, and this is the XI-XV century Authentic bodies for collectible Ferrari collection of the 1950s are extorted, and in San Cesario it was possible to see firsthand that a pair of special shoes for the driver is really attached to the manufactured Signor Pagani Pagani. The grandson of the founder of the legendary body of Touring - Giovanni Anderloni, gain access to the family archive. Thus, it was possible to look into the "kitchen" of Italian automobile design, as it were, through the "official entrance"