De' Silva: Too many designers are decorators.(News)

Automotive News Europe,  December, 2002  

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

Byline: Luca Ciferri

CELEBRATED DESIGNER Walter de' Silva's latest challenge is to create a styling center for Lamborghini, the Italian super-luxury sports car maker.

De' Silva was named head of design at Volkswagen's Audi brand group in March. Besides Audi and Lamborghini the group includes Spanish brand Seat, where de' Silva led the styling team for four years. Before Seat, de' Silva spent 12 years at Alfa Romeo.

The 52-year-old de' Silva talked about current trends in car design with Automotive News Europe's Luca Ciferri at Lamborghini's headquarters in Sant'Agata ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.