Flavio Manzoni

Flavio Manzoni (born 7 January 1965 in Nuoro, Sardinia) is an Italian architect and automobile designer. He is the Senior Vice President of Design at Ferrari.

Flavio Manzoni
Flavio Manzoni at the Paris Motor Show 2018
BornJanuary 7, 1965
Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Florence
OccupationSenior Vice President of Design at Ferrari

Career

Manzoni studied Architecture at University of Florence, specializing in industrial design. In 1993 he joined the Centro Stile Lancia, and three years later he was made responsible for Interior Design of the marque. He worked on various projects such as the interiors of the Lancia Dialogos and the Maserati 3200 GT. In 1999, he moved to Barcelona to become Interior Design Director at SEAT, and working in the interiors of the production cars SEAT Altea and SEAT León, and the concept cars SEAT Salsa and SEAT Tango.

In 2001 Manzoni returned to Lancia and was appointed Design Director. He took charge of the concept cars Lancia Granturismo, Lancia Granturismo Stilnovo and Lancia Fulvia Coupè Concept, great success at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2003, and the production cars Lancia Ypsilon and Lancia Musa, winning the '"European Automotive Design Award" in 2003.[1]

In 2004 he was appointed Director of Design of Fiat, Lancia and Fiat LCV, beginning work on the Fiat Grande Punto, the new Fiat 500, and the Fiat Fiorino/Qubo.

In 2006 Manzoni returned to the VW group and was appointed Director of Creative Design Volkswagen,[2] where he designed the Volkswagen Golf Mk6 and he has defined the new vision of the Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti. Manzoni created concepts for the VW Up!, Space Up!, Space Up! Blue, e-Up! and the VW BlueSport roadster. Among production cars, alongside Walter de Silva, he has designed the recent generation of VW cars.[3]

In January 2010 Manzoni was appointed Senior Vice President of Design at Ferrari, with the task of reworking the identity for the Italian brand.[4] As design director, he has been leading the style center team to develop the concept of the Ferrari FF and LaFerrari,[5] then he presented at Paris Motor Show the roadster Ferrari SA Aperta, and the Ferrari F12berlinetta at the Geneva Motor Show in 2012.

With his team he is directing the project of the “New Ferrari Style Center” in the production site of Ferrari S.p.A. based in Maranello (Modena). Each of the four floors of the new building is dedicated to a different project design stage.[6]

In December 2014 on Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, his FXXK was presented as the most powerful Ferrari ever. Although partially based on the very first hybrid car produced in Maranello, LaFerrari, the FXXK is in fact a completely new car.

In September 2018 Manzoni presented the Ferrari SP38 Deborah at the Grand Basel Show demonstrating his great passion for design: “It’s so important to show the shape of a car as it was intended, as a masterpiece or a work of art. These presentation frames are great at stimulating contemplation – normally, we’re used to seeing cars in noisy and chaotic environments. But here, there’s nothing but the car, its name, and its date. There are no distractions.”[7]

For the partnership between Ferrari and Hublot, the historic luxury watchmaking fashion house, in 2019 he designed of the Hublot Classic Fusion Ferrari GT watch, inspired by the Ferrari "Gran Turismo" universe[8]

Designs

Cars designed by Manzoni:

Lancia Fulvia Coupé Concept (2003)

Awards

In 2011 Flavio Manzoni was included in the Hall of Fame of car design at the National Automobile Museum in Turin, Italy.[9]

In May 2014 he received the Compasso d'Oro, the oldest and most recognized award in the industrial design field, for the design of F12berlinetta. In June 2016 the Compasso d'Oro is assigned to the Ferrari FXXK.

In March 2015 under his direction of the Ferrari Style Centre three Ferraris won the Red Dot Award, the prestigious international design competition, for the FXX K, the California T and LaFerrari

In 2016 he won the Red Dot "Best of the Best" award for Product Design[10] for the Ferrari 488.

In February 2017 under his direction the Ferrari GTC4Lusso won the award "Most Beautiful Supercar of the Year", by the jury of the International Automobile Festival in Paris.[11]

In 2017 the Ferrari J50 wins the Red Dot best of the best[12]

The Red Dot Awards were awarded to the GTC4Lusso, 458MM Speciale, La Ferrari. On July 9, 2018 the award was assigned to the Ferrari Portofino

In May 2018 Flavio Manzoni received the design award for concept cars & prototypes at the Concorso d’Eleganza di Villa d’Este for the Ferrari SP38

In March 2019 the Ferrari Monza SP1 wins Gold Award at the iF Design Awards 2019 in Munich. [13]

In May 2019 Flavio Manzoni wins the American Prize for Design, intended to honor design excellence and innovation [14]


References
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  2. Articolo su automobilismo.it
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  5. "The designer of record". www.wsj.com/. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
  6. "Our Exclusive Look at Ferrari's New Centro Stile and the Monza SP1 and SP2 - COOL HUNTING". COOL HUNTING. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  7. "Opinion leaders from the car world take to the inaugural Grand Basel". Grand Basel. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  8. Reddinger, Paige (2019-03-26). "Hublot Has an Entirely New Watch Design and You Can Thank Ferrari". Robb Report. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  9. "Flavio Manzoni to visit Sydney for Vivid Ideas". whitehavenmotoryachts.com.au. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  10. "Design award honours Kia and Ferrari with Red Dot: Best of the Best". en.red-dot.org. Archived from the original on 21 July 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  11. "The Ferrari GTC4Lusso Wins the "Most Beautiful Supercar of the Year" | Ferrari.com". Ferrari GT - en-EN. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  12. "Red Dot Award 2017 best of the best". Red Dot Award. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  13. "Ferrari Monza SP1 Awarded Gold". Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  14. "Flavio Manzoni Wins 2019 American Prize for Design". www.dexigner.com. Retrieved 2019-05-20.


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