Carrozzieri Italian/Italian Coachbuilders: I maestri dello stile/ The masters of style (Multilingual Edition) Hardcover – February 1, 2017

ofnly wish it had an index

Very Complete Wonderful photographs

I loved the book but it is too short. There are many more cars to see. But great picture of a 'Golden Age' of auto building with specialty manufacturers. Makes me very sorry I didn't find a way to keep the 2 cars in the book that I have owned in my time. Too little money, time, space but I lost much more than I saved.

This is a serious reference work that is useful, but barely usable. Given the enormous amount of information and the need to cross-reference it, I find it inexcusable that an index is not included.Anyone interested in coachbuilders is bound to be at least as interested in designers. Unfortunately, it is impossible to research the designers and their creations without an index unless you're prepared to read every word in the book.Take Franco Scaglione for example - the genius behind Bertone's B.A.T. cars and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint that saved both Alfa and Bertone. If one wonders what Scaglione did after leaving Bertone, there's no way to know without reading every caption to learn that he designed the Lamborghini 350 GTV - built by Monterosa, the 1963 ATS 2500 - built by Allemano, the achingly beautiful Alfa 33 Stradales - built by Marazzi, (and many more creations post-Bertone, not all of them credited).Even if you already know which cars he designed, you'll have to search every photo in the book to find out who the respective coachbuilders were. An index would resolve these questions in moments.Also glaringly omitted as a significant coachbuilder is Turin-based Carrozzeria Intermeccanica who hand-built numerous low-volume cars for customers, yet whose own 'Italia' production numbers (400+) matched those of the ISO Grifo.With an index, this book would easily have earned all 5 stars, but without an index, the sheer waste of time searching out useful information is so frustrating and unnecessary that three stars are the most I can do. While I highly recommend buying the book and I would not be without this book in my library, I do not 'love' it... it exists as only half a book without an index to make it more usable.An index is simple to produce with computerized publishing, so I can only guess that the publishers left it out to save the cost of a few pages. If they have any empathy for researchers who want to make full use of their author's extensive reference work, they must create a website where an index for this book can be downloaded and printed out. If they produce a downloadable index – I’ll change my review if Amazon allows that.

Toda una maravilla, un disfrute en todos los sentidos

Reçu ce magnifique ouvrage bilingue ( italien ,anglais) pour mon anniversaire: présentation de haute qualité papier, encre d'imprimerie exceptionnels ,1300 clichés blanc et noir + couleur 408 pages .Ouvrage fort ambitieux car il traite par le cliché l'histoire de pas moins que 61 carrossiers italiens .A chaque page de ho et des ha de surprises et d'admiration .Mais ce livre est loin d'être exhaustif et bizarrement ce sont les grands carrossiers (Bertone, Pininfarina Ghia ,Zagato etc;;) qui sont les plus pénalisés des pans entiers de leur histoire et de véhicules symboliques qui y sont attachés sont purement et simplement absents'( essentiellement périodes mi 1970 à 1995 ) Le choix des clichés est parfois aussi dérangeant (Pour Bertone par exemple une Countach de série au lieu du proto de 71 et une Citroën XM bien banale) ;une vingtaine de pages de plus auraient sans doute étaient nécessaires pour présenter Lamborghini Bravo,Chevrolet Ramaro Ferrari Pinin ,Lotus Emotion ;Peugeot Nautilus ;NSU Trapèze; Etc... donc un ouvrage de complément ' (Carrosserie italienne par exemple de Serge Bellu) est recommandé ; Mais je chipote car cet ouvrage est une vraie mine de surprises en tout genre et absolument nécessaire dans la bibliothèque de tout passionné qui se respecte.( mais ni index ni bibliographie en fin d'ouvrage=

A great compilation of Italian motoring designers. Many of the backgrounds of the major players in the Italian automotive design arena revealed. However, there are a lot of smaller, but equally important nameplates that are described also. A very good reference book for those into Italian automotive styling and design.

Covers 61 Italian coach builders in reasonable detail. Great photographic coverage.

volume di grandi dimensioni, esaustivo nei testi e nella parte iconografica (anche se sottoposta a delle inevitabili scelte) mi riporta agli anni d'oro dei carrozzieri quando li seguivo sognando su Quattroruote (quello originale non quello "tedesco" di oggi) negli speciali dei Saloni. Vale la spesa secondo me.