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Photo in The Daily Telegraph Magazine special on the ’67 London Motor Show, of Nuccio Bertone and a very young Marcello Gandini, checking out the scale model of the Pirana. (ARCHIVES PIERO STROPA)
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 That Marcello Gandini is one of the greatest of automobile
designers ever has never been disputed, and whether he is the greatest ever,
only time and the directions automobile design takes, will tell. But there is
no doubting Marcello Gandini’s immense impact on automobile design in the last
four decades of the 20th century that still remains valid well into the 21st
century. From the Lamborghini Miura to the Maserati Quattroporte IV, from the
humble Innocenti Mini to the epic Cizeta V16T, Marcello Gandini has designed
some of the most epochal of all automobiles. Iconic cars like the
first-generation BMW 5 Series, the Audi 50/VW Polo, the Fiat X1/9, the
Lamborghini Countach and the Diablo, the Lancia Stratos, the Renault Magnum
super truck, and many others have all flowed from his stylistic pen.
Designing automobiles that really defined the late 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, even
the 1990s, Marcello Gandini is, arguably, the one man who had the greatest
impact, the one who changed automotive design the most. A book on him and his
design is long overdue. Finally, one is here…
- 2 Volume set
- 400 pages in each volume
- 924 images (449 Volume I and 475 Volume II) - many never
seen before!
- Over one hundred of Gandini's designs featured
- 600 regular editions, 400 numbered and signed by both Marcello Gandini and Gautam Sen and a limited number of leather bound editions now available.
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VeloceToday Review
By Pete Vack
November 1, 2016
Right up front, let us tell you that this 800-page, two-volume set entitled Marcello Gandini, Maestro of Design is one of the best books on automotive designers we’ve ever read. We did a quick Internet search and found many new (and old) books on Italian designers, (see list at end of this article) but none that approached the coverage of Gandini. It is devastatingly interesting, beautifully illustrated, nails down the history of every design and/or car touched by Marcello Gandini. The author, Gautam Sen, weaves the designer’s comments (from an introvert who is almost incapable of commenting on himself or his work) into a fascinating story backed by interesting and relevant histories.
And because this work is not only so good, but so massive and relevant to our readership, it is simply not fair to write a book review consisting of a couple of paragraphs. So we will review it by volume, this being the cars of Gandini, Volume One. We’ll launch the review of Volume II next week.
Of all the rightfully famous Italian car designers, Marcello Gandini is perhaps the least well-known, yet his achievements are legion. That’s what makes this book so relevant and informative. We’ve all heard of Gandini of course, but aside from a few of the truly amazing Lamborghinis, it is more difficult to pinpoint his other work. Like the Lancia Stratos Zero and the Lancia Stratos Rally; like the Ferrari Rainbow, the Alfa Montreal, Navajo and Carabo, the Renault 5 Turbo, BMW 5-series, Fiat X1/9, the Dino 308GT4; an incomplete list is four pages long. We will highlight just a small percentage of the cars that are of interest to our readers.
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Author Biography
Internationally acknowledged as the leading automotive journalist and writer in India, having founded the country’s first newsstand car magazine Indian Auto in 1986, Gautam Sen also launched Auto India in 1993, which became India’s best-selling car magazine ever. Later he also launched the Indian editions of auto motor and sport and BBC’s TopGear magazine. Since 2007 Sen has been back in the driver’s seat at Auto India and has been dividing his time between Paris, where his family lives, and Mumbai.
Though less publicized, Sen has also been directly involved with the automobile industry in India and Europe, beginning with his first automotive job at Maruti Udyog Limited, India’s leading carmaker, and then subsequently consulting at various levels in the areas of technology, design, product development, marketing and joint ventures, and in the process, interacting with the likes of Hero Motors, Hindustan Motors, Ideal Jawa, Mahindra & Mahindra, San Motors, Tata Motors, and TVS-Suzuki. Sen also lead the design and development of India’s first sports car, the San Storm.
Whilst working on design and development projects, Sen has worked with eminent designers such as Gerard Godfroy, Tom Tjaarda and Marcello Gandini.
Sen has authored several critically acclaimed books on automobiles: The Maharajas & Their Magnificent Motor Cars (published in French by E.T.A.I., in English by Haynes Publishing and in German by Heel), The Car Design Book, Rolls-Royce 17EX A Fabulous Destiny, and A Million Cars for a Billion People, other than co-authoring The Story of the Star in India and The Royal Udaipur RR GLK 21.
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Marcello Gandini 
Interesting photos