Maserati hosted an unique soirée, in presence of David Beckham and Hiroshi Fujiwara, celebrating the brand new GranTurismo, with three Fuoriserie One Off variations and the unique Launch Version PrimaSerie seventy fifth Anniversary. One particularly, the Gran Turismo One Off Luce, had the Trident brand 3D printed onto the automobile’s ECONYL nylon seats utilizing Stratasys’ distinctive J850 Tech Fashion system for printing on textiles. The mission was performed by native designer Salvatore Saldano.
The occasion passed off on the firm’s new Milan retail retailer within the coronary heart of Italy’s design capital. The Trident launched its GranTurismo Launch Version PrimaSerie seventy fifth Anniversary together with three masterpieces – GranTurismo One Off Prisma and Granturismo One Off Luce, designed by Maserati Centro Stile, and Granturismo One Off Ouroboros conceived by the intrepid inspiration of Japanese road tradition pioneer and buddy of the Trident Hiroshi Fujiwara.
Fashion pioneer and international model ambassador David Beckham was in attendance to pay a private tribute to the brand new GranTurismo, together with Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara, Italian pianist and composer Dardust and Italian actress Matilda De Angelis who raised a glass and celebrated the Trident’s icon – first designed in 1947 to reinforce the long-distance sports activities automobile par excellence.
Klaus Busse, Head of Design at Maserati, said: “GranTurismo Prisma is an ode to our 75-year heritage and to the know-how that has imbued all of the vehicles Maserati has remodeled time. GranTurismo Luce is our future, trying forward, in excellent steadiness with Prisma. The essence of every one depends upon the opposite. By way of innovation, Prisma expresses all the sweetness and excellence of Italian craftsmanship, in addition to mastery in portray and coloration; Luce reveals all of the expertise developed with Folgore, combining our forward-thinking angle and Italian creativity”.
The GranTurismo One Off Luce is supposed as an announcement of innovation and sustainability, that includes a full-electric Folgore engine, which accurately displays Maserati’s experimentation and fixed analysis. The outfit is an unique chromatic mirrored monolith, engraved with a dynamic laser-etched sample and painted in an nearly absent coloration that makes the contours of the automobile mix into its environment. The interiors are fabricated from ECONYL – a regenerated nylon yarn – leading to a novel aesthetic metamorphosis: the monochromatic blue inside reminds of the ocean from which the sustainable materials got here.
The GranTurismo One Off Prisma is a refined work of expertise artwork, geared up with the Nettuno V6 inner combustion engine, devoted to the heritage of this wonderful automobile. The bodywork is fabricated from a chromatic partnership consisting of 14 totally different colours – all painted by hand – and embellished with particulars of greater than 8,500 letters hand-applied and hand-varnished one after the other, making up the names of Maserati vehicles. Two of the colours look forward to the longer term, while the opposite twelve have been chosen from the hues of the preferred GranTurismo fashions of the previous, such because the attribute Amaranto from the 1947 Maserati A6 1.500, and the Oro Longchamps that brightened the 1973 Maserati Khamsin.
Following a long-standing partnership with Japanese model Fragment began in 2021, Maserati launched the GranTurismo One Off Ouroboros, a digital Fuoriserie GranTurismo designed by road tradition innovator Hiroshi Fujiwara, as his personal inventive interpretation of the modern GranTurismo within the full-electric Folgore model. Impressed by the ‘Ouroboros’, a gnostic image that expresses the unity of all issues which by no means disappear however perpetually change kind in an everlasting cycle of destruction and recreation, Fujiwara conceived a one-of-a-kind automobile seamlessly mixing distinctive design components from a curated number of Maserati from the previous. The Granturismo Ouroboros design combines the entrance grill from the A6GCS Berlinetta Pininfarina and the facet vents of the 3500 GT – icons of the magnificence of the Fifties – together with the lined spherical headlights that characterised the Nineteen Sixties racers such because the Maserati Tipo 151. The brand new cast wheels are impressed by the pioneering magnesium alloy wheels launched by the Bora within the Nineteen Seventies, whereas the linked taillight fascia is a direct reference to the ground-breaking design of the Shamal from the Eighties – the Nineteen Nineties.
Hiroshi Fujiwara, the mastermind behind Fragment, said: “GranTurismo Ouroboros has been conceived as a visible and cultural hyperlink between the assorted eras of Maserati design and the present GranTurismo era. We labored with the Maserati workforce to attach the head of tech and efficiency that they’ve in the present day with the icons of favor that generated and fuelled the parable by means of the a long time”.
Through the soirée and as a part of the Fragment collaboration, Fujiwara gave a particular preview ofthe unique capsule assortment impressed by a luxurious highway journey aboard the Maserati GranTurismo, that includes a brand new brand designed like a automobile membership, combining the Trident and Fragment whereas paying homage to Modena and Tokyo, residence cities of the 2 manufacturers. The gathering – obtainable from summer time 2023 on Maserati.com and at choose Maserati showrooms – consists of tees, zip sweats, sweatpants – obtainable in black and white – in addition to a black ball cap, a key attraction within the form of the primary Maserati GranTurismo A6 1.500, a tote bag, a collector’s version map of Italy designed by Yorgo Tloupas, in addition to a cashmere blanket, a transportable chair and desk co-created with Helinox for the right cease alongside an unforgettable Maserati grand tour.
Lastly, the unmistakable attract of a restricted version just like the GranTurismo Launch Version PrimaSerie seventy fifth Anniversary was showcased on the occasion. Made in 4 distinctive configurations, the overall of 300 items – 75 for every model with an inner combustion engine, in Grigio Lamiera and Nero Cometa colours, and 75 for the electrical Folgore model, in Rame Folgore and Blu Inchiostro hues – celebrates the quintessence of Italian luxurious by way of efficiency and stands as a testomony to an excellent steadiness between magnificence and performance, with out ostentation.
These show-stopping masterpieces, on 4 wheels or digital, embody Maserati’s legacy projected into the longer term and have been created inside Fuoriserie, the Trident’s customization program, which permits shoppers to specific their character and creativity to design one-of-a-kind automobiles. Following the worldwide preview at Milan Design Week, these artistic endeavors will journey internationally for a collection of Maserati GranTurismo celebration occasions giving automobile fans the possibility to expertise them up shut and private.
