{"id":23247,"date":"2025-07-25T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23247\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:37:23","slug":"book-review-italdesign-enigneers-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23247\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW | ITALDESIGN, ENIGNEERS OF IDEAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story, from its founding by Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani to its acquisition by the Volkswagen Group, is of course told and illustrated with care in \u201citaldesign \u2013 Engineers of ideas\u201d, but not right away. First published in 2024 in Italian and now available in an English-language edition, this large volume opens much like a great film: it begins in the present, portraying what Italdesign is and does today, before diving into a long and substantial flashback covering the company\u2019s origins and the remarkable trajectory of the Giugiaro family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story, from its founding by Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani to its acquisition by the Volkswagen Group, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-23247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}