Beautiful Machines

by Blake Z. Rong, Jan Baedeker (Preface), Gestalten (Editor)

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.

Genres: Coffee Table Books, Cars

336 pages, Hardcover

Published December 3, 2019

Reviews

[patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful book, the text is as gorgeous as the pictures, and really gets you interested and invested in the cars even if you do not know much about them

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Far I as I know the Beautiful Yellow Maserati Ghibli cover of the book was never done, instead the cover has a Vintage Beautiful Red Maserati on the cover with the blue facel vega II on the binding/back cover under the paper sheet that covers the back . It comes with no dust jacket, it is a hardcover, I do not like the feel of the pages personally I believe the quality feels cheap when I turn the pages, however they managed to have beautiful photography and has great text except the introduction and talk of the Green Future and hybrids and electrics and of course why would they include Citroen in the book? nonetheless, It covers some of my favorite Cars, Corvette, Miura, Iso Grifo/IsoRivolta/Bizzarrini,Maserati and it's models and interesting vehicles such as the Facel Vega II and so many other unique cars. It is a visual treat and makes a great coffee table book.

[Jose · Rating 5 out of 5]

As Far I as I know the Beautiful Yellow Maserati Ghibli cover of the book was never done, instead the cover has a Vintage Beautiful Red Maserati on the cover with the blue facel vega II on the binding/back cover under the paper sheet that covers the back . It comes with no dust jacket, it is a hardcover, I do not like the feel of the pages personally I believe the quality feels cheap when I turn the pages, however they managed to have beautiful photography and has great text except the introduction and talk of the Green Future and hybrids and electrics and of course why would they include Citroen in the book? nonetheless, It covers some of my favorite Cars, Corvette, Miura, Iso Grifo/IsoRivolta/Bizzarrini,Maserati and it's models and interesting vehicles such as the Facel Vega II and so many other unique cars. It is a visual treat and makes a great coffee table book.

[Misrabelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely collection of beautiful cars, and their stories. Interesting facts and figures about some of the most iconic cars of our times.

[J-R-J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must have for lovers of beautiful historical cars - especially great for evening reading of fathers and sons:)

[Federico Lucifredi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every design here is amazing. An amazing collection of iconic production cars.