Bugatti The Designer: Biography through design

This book explores Ettore Bugatti’s mind that was devoted to a multitude of inventions and gives a fascinating insight into this extraordinary man. Bugatti held over a thousand patents and was a prolific sketcher, which enabled him to document his ideas. The book begins with a history of the Bugatti family, followed by thirty-two designs that show the diversity of his work that included: Cars • Railway • Marine • Aircraft • Machine Tools • Bicycle components • Chairs • a Fishing Reel • Furnaces • Door Hinges • Nuts and Bolts • a pasta machine • a vice, etc. Contents include: A list of his inventions, designs, ideas and follies in order and include: Molsheim Electrics • Horses and Carriages • Machine Tool Patents • Aeronautics • Railways • Marine • Automotive. He was also interested in electric cars and produced an electric powered Baby Bugatti and a two-seater runabout which gives an insight into Ettore’s genius – a man who was well ahead of his time. Some of the information, photographs and technical drawings are from earlier times – many of them taken from newspapers and magazines initially printed on newsprint quality paper and even from carbon copies or photocopies so therefore the reproductive quality not as we would have liked. But this information and their photographs are an invaluable source, which we feel is reason enough for inclusion in this book. 360 fully illustrated pages. Read more