Beautiful Machines: The Era of the Elegant Sports Car - Rilegato

Rong, Blake Z.

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ISBN 10: 3899559886 ISBN 13: 9783899559880

Casa editrice: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2019

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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.<br /><br />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.

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Buckle up and enjoy a tour of the most stylish sports cars of the last 100 years--and the fascinating stories that made them icons of the road. Petrolheads and auto devotees: buckle up, we're going for a ride on the best works of machinery to have ever hit the road. From the legendary Porsche 917 (Steve McQueen's favorite) to the Ferrari Daytona (famously replicated for the Miami Vice TV series) and the slick Aston Martin DB5 (James Bond's favorite mode of transport), discover the fascinating stories behin

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Die Gestalten Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3899559886
• ISBN 13: 9783899559880
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 333
• Redattore: Klanten Robert
• Contatto del produttore: GPSR Kontakt; press@gestalten.com; ; Mariannenstr. 9-10; Berlin; 10999; Germania