STEPHEN BAYLEY

Emperor Augustus found Rome a city of rough brick and left it a city of smooth marble. In this way he was similar to Ferrari’s SVP of design, although – happily – Flavio Manzoni has not left Maranello.

With the lovely Lancia Fulvia coupé concept and the neat Volkswagen Polo in his portfolio, Manzoni arrived at Ferrari in 2010 after this most revered of companies had spent an awful lot of time producing aggressively ungainly and sometimes very nearly