BEAUTIFUL MACHINES - L ERE DES ELEGANT

Informationen zum Autor Blake Z. Rong is a freelance writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in Autoweek, Road & Track, Jalopnik, Automobile, and Petrolicious, among other publications. He grew up in Massachusetts and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in New York with a cat named Moose. Jan Baedeker writes about car culture, travel and design. He is the Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief at Classic Driver. In 2017, he co-edited Fast Forward - The Cars of the Future, The Future of Cars published by gestalten. Klappentext Start your engines for a grand tour of the most stylish grand motoring automobiles ever created. Evoking an era when elegance, romance, and outright performance defined the automobile-and the fascinating stories that made them icons of the road. From the shark-inspired Maserati Ghibli to the fiery Lamborghini Miura, from European elegance with American firepower such as the Iso Grifo and Facel Vega to the groundbreaking designs of the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale and Renault Alpine and the advanced technology behind the Jensen FF or Porsche 918 Spyder-these cars are less transportation and more testaments to beauty, freedom, ambition, innovation, and speed. Beautiful Machines was conceived and edited by gestalten. The stories are written by automobile expert Blake Z. Rong with a preface by Classic Driver's Jan Baedeker and gestalten's Robert Klanten. Zusammenfassung Beautiful Machines nimmt seine Leser mit auf eine Spritztour durch die Zeit und erzählt die faszinierenden Geschichten der legendärsten Sportwagen. Vom schnittigen Maserati Ghibli über den eleganten Lamborghini Miura und Iso Grifo bis hin zum wegweisenden Design des Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 und zur hochentwickelten Technologie des Porsche 918 Spyder - Beautiful Machines versammelt die Entstehungsgeschichten von über 45 ikonischen Sportwagen und gibt fundierte und spannende Einblicke in ihre raffinierte Technik. Neben einem Überblick über die Geschichte des Automobils von den 1930ern bis heute zeigt das Buch anhand umfangreichen Bildmaterials! wie sich technische Innovation! Design und Zeitgeist gegenseitig beeinflussen. ...

Product details

• Authors: gestalten
• Assisted by: Gestalte (Editor), gestalten (Editor), Robert Klanten (Editor), Jan Baedeker (Foreword)
• Publisher: DGV - DIE GESTALTEN EDITIONS
• Languages: English, French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9783899559880
• ISBN: 978-3-89955-988-0
• Series: Beautiful Machines / The Most Iconic Cars; Beautiful Machines
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; Design, Porsche, Formel 1, Rennwagen, Verstehen, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Sport, Muscle Cars, autorennen, Motorrennen und Rennsport, Classic Cars, America, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / General, Ingenieurswesen, Maschinenbau allgemein, Design -> Book, Sports Cars, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / Antique & Classic, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / Customizing, Racing, engineering, Formula 1, Formula 1 & Grand Prix, Car racing, race cars, Motor cars: general interest, Collector’s cars, Race History, Inconic