Remembering the greatest car designer: Marcello Gandini (1938-2024)

Turin is home to an incredible legacy of automotive technology and branding. Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo. During the first half of the 20^th century, Turin was a global epicentre of design and engineering innovation for all things automotive.

But despite being born into the design and technically obsessed culture of interwar Turin, in 1938, Marcello Gandini's destiny appeared to be music, not cars.

As a conductor, Gandini's father had artistic ambitions for his son, but these would be realized with a pencil in hand instead of a conductor’s baton. Gandini would become one of the greatest artists in history, but his canvas was metal and glass.