A personal tribute by Edgardo Michelotti recounting the 2023 Concours d'Élégance Suisse in Coppet, where collectors and enthusiasts gathered beside Lake Geneva to celebrate the centenary of Giovanni Michelotti through rare cars, original design artefacts and an intimate retrospective dedicated to one of Italy’s greatest automotive stylists. Words by Edgardo Michelotti Photos and Drawings: Archivio Storico Michelotti www.archiviostoricomichelotti.it There are places where the automobile...

Born from a chance acquisition and shaped by pure creative freedom, Giovanni Michelotti’s Jaguar D-Type Coupé stands as one of the most fascinating and misunderstood one-off cars of the 1960s: a Le Mans thoroughbred subtly reimagined as a road-going sports car.

When Ferrari’s name began to shine brightly across the Atlantic, few figures shaped its American allure as decisively as Luigi Chinetti—and fewer still gave form to that allure as brilliantly as Giovanni Michelotti. Through Chinetti’s vision and Michelotti’s pen, Ferrari’s most exclusive clients discovered cars that went far beyond Maranello’s catalog: unique bodies, daring prototypes, and Daytona rebirths that blurred the line between road and dream. This is the story of their partnership.