Giorgio Battistella

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Giorgio Battistella (* 1931 in San Donà di Piave , Italy ) is an Italian automobile designer .

life and work

Battistella was a designer at Simca in Paris from 1955 to 1962 . From 1963 to 1964 he worked as a designer in Turin, mainly for the Officine Stampaggi Industriali (OSI). From 1964 to 1967 he worked as a designer at Mercedes-Benz in Sindelfingen .

From 1967 until his retirement he worked in the “Centro Stile” at Fiat in Turin.

In 1977 Battistella was a participant in documenta 6 in Kassel in the "Vehicles - Utopian Design" department with " Studio per vettura da città, vettura elettrica" (design of a city car, electric car, 1968 to 1972).

Battistella lives in Turin .

literature

  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

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