This Espresso Desk E-book Paperwork the Golden Age of Italian Automotive Design

Paolo Martin’s 1969 Sigma Grand Prix was an F1 idea with revolutionary security options.

Piotr Degler

Over the course of greater than a decade, Photographer Piotr Degler captured a number of the most stunning, weirdest, and most important automobiles to return from his beloved Italy. The ensuing coffee-table guide, ‘Made in Italy,’ is a beautiful monument to Italian automotive ardour and the grasp designers who spurred it on. Over the course of greater than a decade, Photographer Piotr Degler captured a number of the most stunning, weirdest, and most important automobiles to return from his beloved Italy. The ensuing coffee-table guide, ‘Made in Italy,’ is a beautiful monument to Italian automotive ardour and the grasp designers who spurred it on.

This story initially appeared in Quantity 14 of Highway & Monitor.

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Within the 1971 Alfa Romeo 33 Spider “Cuneo” idea, designer Paolo Martin melded conventional barchetta physique model with the prevailing wedge design of the period.

Piotr Degler

Bertone’s sci-fi 1976 Alfa Romeo Navajo idea might have come from the set of Star Wars, which was launched a 12 months later.

Piotr Degler

Designed by Battista “Pinin” Farina, the elegant Cisitalia 202 was a high-water mark of midcentury Italian coachbuilding.

Piotr Degler

Piotr Degler grew up in Spain and as a younger man moved to Italy to check automotive design at its epicenter, Turin. He labored at Bertone in 2009 below design director Jason Castriota. Extra just lately, Degler transitioned to pictures. Along with company and editorial work, Degler revealed his first guide, Carros de Cuba, in 2016.

His new work, the fantastically printed, 264-page Made in Italy coffee-table guide, paperwork his love of Italian automotive design. Degler brings a designer’s eye to every of the greater than 100 automobiles he options. His knowledgeable lighting and framing provide a contemporary perspective on acquainted classics. He provides as a lot care to lesser-known and extra trendy topics.

Along with automotive pics, Degler devotes 23 pages to temporary profiles of the maestros of Italian automotive design, together with Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, and Leonardo Fioravanti, amongst a number of others. Made in Italy is obtainable at madeinitalybook.com. Degler additionally sells large-scale prints of his work, some signed by the maestros themselves.