{"id":194,"date":"2023-04-01T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2024-04-05T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:58:51","slug":"design-book-carrosserie-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/design-book-carrosserie-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Book #2: Carrosserie Passion by Paul Bracq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are designers, there are good designers and there are true design GODS\u2026and Paul Bracq is one them! His rare book &#8216;Carrosserie Passion&#8217; (in French only) is a real testament to his achievements and talent of epic proportions. It\u2019s obviously quite difficult to highlight his best work in a single Instagram post (I don\u2019t know what to begin with), but many regard his years at BMW and Mercedes-Benz as the very best. What\u2019s even more impressive is the person that he worked with at Mercedes-Benz and eventually succeeded him as head of design &#8211; the legendary Bruno Sacco!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book is no longer in press, but some used copies can be found online &#8211; unfortunately it isn\u2019t cheap! However it\u2019s worth it and I would recommend it over 100s of coffee table books full of useless design clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Book Review\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ln7lFgA174?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6350-1024x770.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6350-1024x770.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6350-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6350-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6350.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6352-1024x770.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6352-1024x770.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6352-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6352-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6352.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6356-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6356-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6356-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6356-768x577.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6356.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to find our more about what&#8217;s Paul Bracq up to, feel free to visit his website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracqheritage.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bracqheritage.com\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are designers, there are good designers and there are true design GODS\u2026and Paul Bracq is one them! His rare book &#8216;Carrosserie Passion&#8217; (in French only) is a real testament to his achievements and talent of epic proportions. It\u2019s obviously quite difficult to highlight his best work in a single Instagram post (I don\u2019t know what to begin with), but many regard his years at BMW and Mercedes-Benz as the very best. What\u2019s even more impressive is the person that he worked with at Mercedes-Benz and eventually succeeded him as head of design &#8211; the legendary Bruno Sacco!!! The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miroslavdimitrov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}