Beautiful Machines - Coffee Table Book

- Blake Z. Rong is a journalist with work appearing in *Autoweek*, *Road & Track* and other car-focused publications - Jan Baedeker is the Creative Director and Editor-in-Chief at *Classic Driver*

Specs: - Release Date: October 2019 - Format: full-color hardcover, 30 x 27 cm - Pages: 320

- Images and stories of the cars that defined the zeitgeist of the automotive industry - Shows how the most successful grand touring cars influenced the larger automotive industry - Includes cars like the Maserati Ghibli, Lamborghini Miura, Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale, Renault Alpine, Jensen FF, and Porsche 918 Spyder - Write ups on each car written by automobile expert Blake Z. Rong - Preface by the Editor-in-Chief of *Classic Driver*, Jan Baedeker

**”A house without books is like a room without windows.” - Horace Mann** Inspiration, aspiration, new worlds, places unseen—these books deliver on all of it. Covering the best and most vibrant corners of travel, art, culture, design, and architecture, the high-quality hardcovers from Gestalten are things of beauty to be admired today and 50 years from now. *Beautiful Machines: The Era of the Elegant Sports Car* is filled with gorgeously detailed, full-color photos of 45 of the world’s greatest automobiles along with their stories. If you can’t get your hands on a Aston Martin DB4 GT, this is the next best thing.