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THE GENIUS OF LINE A face-to-face meeting with the designer the world associates with the most sublime Made in Italy creativity. He has designed some of the most famous cars of all time but he is active in many other sectors, ranging across a wide variety of products. Here, a creative talent with an inquisitive mind and his feet firmly on the ground talks about himself and his work by Marta Bernasconi - ph. Courtesy by Italdesign
D
escribed as the Car Designer of the Century, he
Giorgetto Giugiaro was born with a great talent,
has made his mark on the history of many car
nurtured in a stimulating family environment. He
manufacturers, designing vehicles that now form
transformed this gift into a career he is utterly passionate
part of the collective imagination – take, for example,
about. His talent became clear at a very early age, and
Fiat and Volkswagen with the Panda and Golf. He has
his father, a musician and fresco painter for churches
also designed trains, boats, watches, sewing machines,
and manor houses, recognised and encouraged it, setting
the infamous DeLorean from Back to the Future and
the boy the task of copying the sketches of dancers by
even a pasta shape (Marille).
Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec when he returned home
Above, from left, two cars created by GFG Style, the new company in which Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio both work. From left, the four-door Sibylla and the Bandini Dora, a sporty, electrically powered two-seater
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