Turin district of Grugliasco held an exhibition dedicated to a long-time resident referred to as the ‘secret designer’. Modern industrial designers may be fêted and even rewarded with knighthoods, but between the world wars, when the rich ordered bespoke bodies for their cars in the same way they ordered a suit, it was coachbuilders who gained the publicity and rarely their artists. Mario Revelli di Beaumont was therefore one of Italy’s most prolific but least known stylists, and he is now widely accepted as the
