#figoni

Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Cabriolet 1933 by Figoni. - source Gagik Hovhannisyan.

The first industrial products weren't particularly elegant or graceful, but the distinctive design charm of the small Citroën 5CV was universally noted. Perhaps it was this French ethos that was most fully reflected in the style of these early automobiles, which attracted the most radical designers and stylists to France. The most powerful influx of originals came from neighboring Italy, and the peak of this peculiar intellectual emigration occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, when Ettore Bugatti's son, Jean, a brilliant stylist and designer, began working for his company after moving from Milan. In Paris, Piacenza native Giuseppe Figoni and Tuscan Ovidio Falaschi met, beginning to produce perhaps the most unusual bodies for such exotic firms as Delahaye, Delage, and Talbot.

1949 Delahaye Type 175 Cabriolet by Figoni et Falaschi

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By eric

1939 Delahaye 165 M Figoni & Falaschi Cabriolet

Delahaye 135 Compétition Figoni Top Convertible 1936. - source Jim Ahlenslager via Art Deco.

Talbot-Lago Grand Sport Figoni Fastback Coupé 1948. - source Moto Vitelloni - Wheels n' wings.