Over the course of more than a decade, Photographer Piotr Degler captured some of the most beautiful, weirdest, and most significant cars to come from his beloved Italy. The resulting coffee-table book, ‘Made in Italy,’ is a gorgeous monument to Italian automotive passion and the master designers who spurred it on. Over the course of more than a decade, Photographer Piotr Degler captured some of the most beautiful, weirdest, and most significant cars to come from his beloved Italy. The resulting coffee-table book, ‘Made in Italy,’ is a gorgeous monument to Italian automotive passion and the master designers who spurred it on.
This story originally appeared in Volume 14 of Road & Track.
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Piotr Degler grew up in Spain and as a young man moved to Italy to study automotive design at its epicenter, Turin. He worked at Bertone in 2009 under design director Jason Castriota. More recently, Degler transitioned to photography. In addition to corporate and editorial work, Degler published his first book, Carros de Cuba, in 2016.
His new work, the beautifully printed, 264-page Made in Italy coffee-table book, documents his love of Italian automotive design. Degler brings a designer’s eye to each of the more than 100 vehicles he features. His expert lighting and framing offer a fresh perspective on familiar classics. He gives as much care to lesser-known and more modern subjects.
In addition to car pics, Degler devotes 23 pages to brief profiles of the maestros of Italian automotive design, including Marcello Gandini, Giorgetto Giugiaro, and Leonardo Fioravanti, among several others. Made in Italy is available at madeinitalybook.com. Degler also sells large-scale prints of his work, some signed by the maestros themselves.
