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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Valentino Garavani, Mauro Nespoli, Aldo Giorgini, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Mario Rebecchi, Maserati Brothers, Marietta Gazzaniga, Carlo Maserati, Ernesto Maserati, Alessandro Calvi, Alfieri Maserati, Ettore Maserati, Alessandro Maragliano, Bindo Maserati, Ambrogio Casati, Claudio Puglisi. Excerpt:Aldo Giorgini (March 15, 1934 - October 1994) was an Italian artist and a pioneer in computer graphics. He is the father of music producer Mass Giorgini . Biography Giorgini was born in Voghera , in the province of Pavia (northern Italy). He was a high school classmate of fashion designer Valentino , who was also a student of design of Ernestina Salvadeo, Giorgini's maternal aunt. Formally trained by Italian Futurist painter-sculptor Ambrogio Casati , Giorgini stayed on with his mentor as an apprentice, and assisted in the restoration of classic works by old masters damaged during the Second World War. Simultaneously attending university coursework outside of his work in the arts, Giorgini earned a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino before travelling to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship . There, Giorgini earned a second doctorate, this time a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University , and accepted a professorial position in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. At Purdue University he won several awards and distinctions as an outstanding teacher of fluid mechanics and engineering mathematics at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He regularly included aesthetics lectures in his engineering courses, saying that "to be technical and scientific does not preclude a concern for the beauty and art of image and form. Architecture and engineering both occupy the same continuum: mathemat... ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Voghera, Valentino Garavani, Mauro Nespoli, Aldo Giorgini, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, Mario Rebecchi, Maserati Brothers, Marietta Gazzaniga, Carlo Maserati, Ernesto Maserati, Alessandro Calvi, Alfieri Maserati, A.c. Voghera, Ettore Maserati, Alessandro Maragliano, Bindo Maserati, Ambrogio Casati, Claudio Puglisi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino (born 11 May 1932) is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company. Valentino became interested in men and women's fashion while in primary school in his native Voghera, Lombardy, northern Italy, when he apprenticed under his aunt Rosa and local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini). At 17, Valentino moved to Paris to pursue this interest with the help of his mother Teresa de Biaggi and his father Mauro Garavani. There he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. His first choice in Paris was Jacques Fath, then Balenciaga. He then found apprentice jobs with Jean Desses where he used to help style icon countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her dress ideas. He then joined Guy Laroche for 2 years. At Desses, Valentino sketched furiously, between helping with window dressing and greeting clients for the daily 2:30 p.m. private showings. Most of his early sketches were lost. At a Rome exhibition in 1991 a smattering went on display and current clients at that time such as Marie Hélène de Rothschild and Elizabeth Taylor marveled that the DNA of Valentino's style was already apparent in the layers of white pleats and animal prints. A wedding dress by ValentinoAfter five years, Valentino left Jean Desses under a clou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=919815 ... Read more