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The Art of Bugatti
Mullin Automotive Museum
Richard Adatto, Julius Kruta and Christina Japp with Michael Furman
Verlag: Coachbuilt Press, www.mullinautomotivemuseum.com
ISBN: 978 0 9779809 8 7
At the heart of this book ist the stunning
collection of Bugattis housed in the recently
opened Mullin Automotive Museum
in California, a temple to vehicular
Art Deco. Top studio photographer Michael
Furman has profi led a selection of
cars:
besides the fully restored examples are a number of derelicts from
the infamous „Schlumpf reserve collection“, plus teh Brescia raised
from Lake Maggiore last year; to see Bugattis that have plumbed such
depths, so to speak, is fascinating.
But there is much more to this handsome volume than glossy studio
pictures. Large-format period photos are used big and bold - the haunting
portrait of Rembrandt Bugatti, tired and drawn but fi xing the camera
with a piercing stare, surrounded by empty chairs in the deserted
café of the Antwerp Zoo, is truly remarkable. Rembrandt committed
suicide a few years later.
Appropriately, there are also chapters on the furniture and sculpture of
Carlo and Rembrandt Bugatti; even a section on Bugattis of the post -
87 marque revival. An eclectic mixture, beautifully presented.
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