The Figoni Bugatti book is coming soon
For more than three years we have been working on the magnum opus about Bugatti that were bodied by Figoni.
The book is now far into design. We expect the design to be completed in the coming weeks. It will take some time to print and manufacture books as paper and materials cannot be ordered before the final size of the book is known. Expect finished books to ship in March. Maybe a bit earlier, maybe a bit later. No promises.
As with the Alfa-Romeo by Figoni book, the print run will be 600 signed and numbered copies. There will not be a reprint. It will be 3 luxury volumes in a slipcase with a debossed metal badge and black foil print. The retail price will be € 650 (EUR).
Books can be ordered from a number of book sellers, including Horton’s Books in the UK, Donald E. Toms in the USA, Gilena in Italy and others. If you are on their mailing lists, these booksellers will notify you when they start taking orders.
It will also be possible to order books direct on www.moteurs.dk.
Please do not order from www.moteurs.dk at this point. We will notify you as soon as the book is live on our website and can be preordered.
Books ordered from our website will ship directly to you from Holland.
We know that a number of you who bought the Figoni Alfa-Romeo book will want to receive the same number of the Bugatti book.
Therefore, please place your preorder with the requested number with the same seller where you bought the Alfa-Romeo book.
This service will be available for initial advance preorders only. Unfortunately, there cannot be any exceptions, as it will be logistically impossible to sort book shipments by number once the book is manufactured and warehoused.
We will inform when we are closer to the deadline
Please do not try to order books from www.moteurs.dk until we notify you that the book is live on the site.
Summer of 1933: the Comtesse de Rivals-Mazéres presenting a gorgeous Figoni-bodied Type 55 in the Bois de Boulogne.
Figoni and Bugatti progress!
We are happy to report that we have finally reached a major milestone with the Figoni-Bugatti book!
We have been silent for way too long, but we did not want to fill up your inboxes with useless fluff for the sake of keeping the ball rolling. At last, we now have something to say, and the milestone is this: we have identified 114 Bugattis that were bodied by Figoni! That is something in itself of course, but more importantly, all the chassis-by-chassis descriptions of these forgotten classics have now been written!
It has been a huge task, and we have worked closely with some of the most important Bugatti historians in the world. They have provided extraordinary source material from the Bugatti archives, information and photos. However, the sheer amount of it has also been the major reason why the writing has taken so long. So, so, so many details to sort, research and cross-check. There will be much new information, and previously unknown Bugattis have been identified.
Now all of this will go into proofing and correction. Meanwhile the biographical chapters about Joseph Figoni and the Carrosserie Joseph Figoni in the 1920s will be written. It will be a fascinating story about how closely Figoni worked with the Bugatti sales organisation in Paris, and the first showings of Figoni carrosseries at the Paris Salons and Parisian concours – an engrossing account about how French luxury cars were sold, marketed and built in the City of Light before the tsunami of the Great Depression. Who the movers and shakers were, and the conflicts that arose when business interests clashed.
It will be a large book, designed to match the Figoni Alfa-Romeo book, and stand next to it on your book shelf. We are looking at two volumes, possibly three!
To be continued…