2024-09-26
24 分钟Making a masterpiece begins with a vision. And where else to start than with the beloved Italian marque Maserati’s new powerful, all-electric sports car: the Gran Cabrio Folgore. As summer turns to autumn, we engage the roof, connect the charger and hit the road. Join us. Featuring Maserati’s head of design Klaus Busse and sculptor Valeria Greco. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Making a masterpiece begins with a vision.
An artist sees a version of the finished form in the raw material and.
Decides to mold it to their design.
Are they already planning the path from which a heavenly body will be rendered?
You are listening to a special episode of Monocle on culture that we've made to celebrate our partner for this current season.
Maserati, the beloved Italian marque, has produced two new all powerful, all electric sports cars, the Grancabrio and Gran Turismo.
A success for me is to see the car, completely unexpected, in traffic, in a beautiful setting, with a person driving it.
And I can see in the face.
Of the person that he or she.
Is clearly enjoying it.
Klaus Busser is Maserati's head of design and he'll be telling us about engineering, emotion and, and maybe making art itself.
For this first programme of two, we're behind the wheel of the Gran Cabrio Folgore.
Folgore, Italian for lightning.
Driving south from Maserati's moderner home to the marble quarries at Carrara is to witness the forging of new forms, animated and electrified, where elements collide planes into trees into hill, into the Apennines, and then with the Grancabrio's soft top stowed down into Ligurian sea, crowned with heat haze, and where rock becomes sand into sea into vapor, somewhere becoming rain.
And then a swipe in the calm of the cockpit recalls the roof of our Grancabrio Folgere.
Any shower, however refreshing, can be weathered with the car so pitch perfect, so persuasively turning heads.
I had to ask Klaus, where on earth do you start with designing a brand new Maserati?
He and his team, after all, are no strangers to the brushstrokes, materials and the vision of their great Italian forebears.
If we have the chance to start.
An all new program, an all new car, it is indeed very philosophical, very theoretical and a lot of words, a lot of talking.