Inaugurated at the Museum of Transport Luzern the exhibition "Italo-Design"
The exhibition "Italo Design 1968-1978" was inaugurated on friday 19th of october, at the Museum of Transport of Luzern, dedicated for the italian style of the 70s. At the exhibition there are 10 cars of the Lopresto Collection, all of them are prototypes or rarities, in order to tell about the era of great fantasy and great changes.
In the 70s for the italian coachbuilders were hard years, the market of the custom-built cars disappears and the only way in order to survived was to collaborate with big car manufacturers.
In this way a lot of proposals destined to italian and foreign brands were born, but not all were produced. At the same time the show-car, cars with extreme shapes, become the main attractions of international car show and all of the most important designers started to create cars with futuristic features.
The exhibition tells about the era of changes through the realizations of Bertone, Ghia, Italdesign, Zagato signed by designer as Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Diego Ottina, Ercole Spada and Tom Tjaarda.
We can see cars from the Alfa Romeo 1750 GT of Giugiaro of 1968 to the Lancia Sibilo Bertone of 1978, an extraordinary creation chassis Stratos for the Salone di Torino, going through the prototypes Lancia Marica Ghia, Lancia Flavia Super Sport Zagato, De Tomaso Pantera 7X Ghia and Autobianchi Gioavani Pininfarina. At the exhibition there is also a rare Zagato Zele, and experimento of an electric citycar, and more rare a Visitors Bus Bertone, used to visit Fiat establishments, in addition of 2 other cars, the Alfasud Sprint presented in Paris in 1976 from Italdesign (rich of unique details) and the Fiat 130 Familiare "villa d'Este" owned by Gianni Agnelli, one of the three cars built.
At the inauguration there were about 100 people, among which 2 ministers, several local political leaders and a lot of enthusiast came from Italy.
The exhibition will be held in the Pavilion of Road Transport of the Swiss Museum of Transport-Verkehrshaus (Lidostrasse 5, 6006 Luzern, Switzerland www.verkehrhaus.ch) until the first months of 2019.
