THE BENTLEY BALANCE
Social media star Tom Claeren stands beside a Continental GT, in front of the legendary Monte Carlo Casino
The late W.O. Bentley founded Bentley Motors with the aim of achieving utter perfection in his cars. But the company’s current design director, Stefan Sielaff, is a fan of subtle imperfection—the Cindy Crawford’s–mole kind of flaw that is more an exclamation mark on perfection than a detraction from it. “You get into a Bentley and you see that it’s done with love and care,” Sielaff says. “You can see the human touch and that it was not done by robots. You need this little touch of imperfection. If something is too perfect and too precise, it’s not natural anymore; it’s artificial.”
Sielaff believes that humans innately seek these indications of mortality amid the sublime.
