The aesthete

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

Giugiaro shaped cameras for Nikon over a 15-year period. The F3 arrived in 1979, his first, and Nikon’s third professional single-lens reflex camera body. Each subsequent model featured rounded forms

The Gordon GT broke cover at the 1960 Geneva motor show, and took until 1964 to reach (limited) production. It marked the jumping-off point for Giugiaro’s career as a designer: its outline made the le

LEGENDARY CAR DESIGNER Giorgetto Giugiaro has joined the select list of winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the 2025 International Historic Motoring Awards, Presented by Lockton. The 87-year