{"id":15239,"date":"2020-11-28T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/marcello-gandini-il-designer-del-futuro-capitolo-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:20:09","slug":"marcello-gandini-the-designer-of-the-future-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/marcello-gandini-the-designer-of-the-future-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcello Gandini: The designer of the future – Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]– You were young, you were 27 years old when you drew the Lamborghini Miura for Bertone, I\u2019m not talking about the actually car\u2019s design which you consider to be unsightly\u2026 but the stroke was already bold.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Only to a certain extent as my taste derived from the 50s sports cars. If you look at them today, they\u2019re not beautiful but back then, for a guy like myself, they represented something very advanced. With Lamborghini Miura, I was at the beginning of my work and I didn\u2019t have such an autonomy to be able to do what I wanted. I had relied upon the taste of the great sports car from the 50s\/60s and then, the fact that something was different but yet, it was already in people\u2019s eyes. So aggressive, but with some sweetness, a mix. The Miura\u2019s design was a compromise between the wish to do something new and something different, but not to displease the public. <\/em>
\nWhen I made the Countach, it took years before it was totally accepted. Someone liked it straight away, but most people, including some journalists, took years to like it. To the extent that it was in production for 17 years. <\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15064″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Marcello Gandini is a reserved and every detail regarding him is of shying away from flashiness. The elegance which distinguishes him in his facial features and gesturalism. The sobriety in his speech. The gentleness of the soul and strong personality make him the very charismatic master. Some of his creations convey extravagance, others grace and power, but they\u2019re all great charmers. They\u2019re cars which wink at their competitors and they declare the challenge open.<\/p>\n

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– The Lamborghini Countach catalyses curiosity, you still stop to look at it today\u2026 its shape is still innovative<\/strong><\/p>\n

– But initially you encountered some challenges. While it represented my dream<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”15066″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]– Do you mean that the Miura was more of a ruffian, a transition line, while the Countach is the purest car, which identified you the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Yes, that\u2019s right, in the Miura that little bit of boldness that there was, was made acceptable by sweetness, by the trend of the design. Nobody refused the Miura, there was a prompt consent. Even more than it deserved. <\/em><\/p>\n

– I read in several interviews that you consider the Lamborghini Miura to be \u201cunsightly\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Yes, I think it is, but I didn\u2019t realise about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Personally speaking, I find the Miura to be beautiful and the detail of the gills is my favourite.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– They\u2019re part of that touch of necessary originality, which you need to include or there is no novelty. Just like the eyelashes on the headlights, which were simply drawn to mask the Fiat 850\u2019s headlight. To make prototypes, they used series products of other cars, trying to camouflage them as much as possible. There was a practical reason in some cases. <\/em>
\nThe air vents were necessary, they could have been designed differently, or put in another place, but there was a practical function because you need to support the open glass, without frame, and a guide was necessary in some way. <\/em>
\nThe grills with the hexagons were also aimed at diversifying something which was already part of the standard equipment.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text]