Associated names and impressions

For the time being, what is hiding under the bonnet is still a secret. The fact that Williams Advanced Engineering, a branch of the Williams Group which is a big name of global standing, is behind this luxury car does help us to get some sort of idea what to expect.

Another globally renowned name involved is the Scottish Bridge of Weir Leather Company, which supplies leather seats for wonderful cars such as the Ford T, Aston Martin V8, Jaguar XJS Coupe or also the McLaren F1. The Dendrobium comes with seats sewn from the most luxurious leather by the above-mentioned company.

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What are we counting on? 

We are counting on four engines, each pair on one axle with differential. The front one will be connected to a single stage gearbox, the rear one to a multi-stage gearbox. The car’s maximum speed is 320 km/h and it is able to accelerate from zero to one hundred in 2.7 seconds. The system parameters are still unknown, the batteries are lithium-ion. The basis of the frame is a composite mono-block and suspension is double trapezoidal. The bodywork is made of carbon fibre and the brakes are carbon-ceramic.

Mass production begins in 2020. So start to look forward to this “predator” of the road?

The artist’s path

In the 1980s, Alex Katz profiled himself as a painter of “cool painting”, experimenting with innovative painting procedures and creating his signature style of painting and drawing.

We often find figurative motifs in his pictures. Figures of people who surrounded him in the public space or groups of friends and his family. He stands on the border between reality and abstraction, affects his audience with his cold emotionality verging on aloofness, rationality or sensuality. Apart from the figurative motif, he also focused on the animal kingdom, in particular in drawing or simple sketching.

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He mastered various types of graphic design, from lithography all the way through to screen printing and wood carving. He also flirted with fashion design or a while.

He was captivated by the landscape feature in the 90s, a feature which he characterises as the environment. This is why the audience is surrounded by nature in his large-format canvases and drawn into the picture. From 1986 onwards, he started to paint luxury night scenes, leaving behind the multicoloured natural world and immersing himself in a study of light.

The artist’s present

At the start of the new millennium, a floral motif appeared in his pictures, the luxury pictures literally packed with huge blooms. He has recently been painting various dancers in different positions, his work growing and developing.

Countless works

His work has been the subject of more than 200 separate exhibitions and almost 500 group exhibitions on an international level. In 2010, his graphic work was exhibited at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. The National Portrait Gallery in London presented an exhibition entitled Alex Katz Portraits. The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland displayed the artist’s latest pictures, inspired by summer in Maine. Last but not least, his works were for example on show in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, bearing the name “Facing the Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 2010”.

His work is certainly a thing of luxury to behold.