A new series from “Recess Therapy” creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum explores whether the inverse of Those Who Can’t Do, Teach is true using star actors, musicians, and athletes as substitute teachers in NYC elementary schools.
Lamborghini Urus SE Delivers MORE
After driving the SE on a private off-road course and through the rural and coastal public roads of Puglia, Italy, we can say with certainty that the new $275,000 (estimated price), 789 hp truckster successfully accomplishes its mission—though we’re not sure that is always a good thing.
Concept Cars that Became Production Cars
Concept cars are generally the evanescent dreams of designers. But, every so often, the bean-counters take a handful of edibles, and some marketing person discovers a emergent psychographic niche of buyers that they believe would be willing to pay a premium for something distinctive, and these fantasy vehicles are turned into something consumers can buy and drive on public roads. Huzzah!
Carchitecture: The Book!
The history of architectural imagery, according to Demeulmeester, is replete with “designers who understood that combining cars with their buildings makes the image more dynamic and strong.”
Stars & Cars: Timothée Chalamet
How to cast cars for a movie set in the 1950s, rumored to be about a professional ping-pong player (?!?), and starring Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, and, even more unlikely, New York City masquerading as Paris.
The Driving Machine: Book Review
Witold Rybczynski has owned 15 cars in his life, and all of them make an appearance in “The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car” (Norton, $29.99). In fact, the book is something of a paean to the famed design and architecture writer’s vehicles, which tended toward the utilitarian.
Street Legal and Socially Irresponsible
It looks poised to attack, consume your face, and then lunge off, cackling, in the direction of its next victim.
The Legacy of Hollywood’s Favorite ’70s Sports Car
The new Ferrari 12Cilindri owes a clear debt to the iconic Ferrari Daytona, coveted by movie stars and rock gods, and star of ‘The Long Goodbye,’ ‘A Star Is Born’ and Miami Vice.’
Whatever you want to call it, the car, sharply angular and muscularly curvaceous, looks resplendent in this hue, as auric and encapsulatory of human potential as the golden record we sent into the universe on the Voyager spacecraft—a disco disc distillation of the diversity of life on earth—in the ’70s, when the Daytona’s influence reigned supreme.
RIP Bruno Sacco
Bruno Sacco, the legendary Mercedes-Benz design chief, died on September 19 at the age of 90.
Sacco believed that Mercedes design must express the brand’s technical excellence and could never be used to mask or make up for a lack thereof. His work excelled not only in restraint and elegance—a representation of the product’s pinnacle positioning—but timelessness.
Check out my essay on his reign, and our slideshow of nine of his greatest Benz designs, and his one unmitigated (self-admitted) flop.