New global car exhibition ‘Grand Basel’ to launch September 2018
MCH Group, one of the world’s leading live marketing companies headquartered in Basel/Switzerland, is launching a new global exhibition format: Grand Basel, the first global salon for the world’s most…
MCH Group, one of the world’s leading live marketing companies headquartered in Basel/Switzerland, is launching a new global exhibition format: Grand Basel, the first global salon for the world’s most important and valuable automobiles of the past, present and future. Cars will be set and presented in the cultural context of design, architecture and art. Following its premiere in Basel in September 2018, further events have been planned for Miami and Hong Kong. Grand Basel addresses international connoisseurs, experts and collectors with the highest standards, as well as a general audience interested in automobile aesthetics, technological sophistication, arts and culture.
At its avant premiere and media presentation of the Grand Basel concept at Messe Basel, renowned international representatives of the world of automobiles elucidated the Grand Basel concept based on four exceptional designs, some of which have never before been shown to the public:
Giorgetto Giugiaro, ‘Car Designer of the Century’, brought his legendary 1963 Chevrolet Corvair Testudo to Basel. Andrea Zagato announced a tribute to the legendary brand IsoRivolta: The Zagato IsoRivolta Vision Gran Turismo concept, featured as a drivable vehicle in the Sony Playstation video game series, Gran Turismo Sport, will be revealed in October 2017 and aims to be one of the highlights of Grand Basel 2018. Designer Rem D. Koolhaas showed a new Lo Res car for his fashion brand, United Nude, for which he abstracted the polygonal design of a Lamborghini Countach into the most minimalist wedge shape. This masterpiece was also displayed for the first time at the avant premiere of Grand Basel. As the favorite brand of LeCorbusier, whose patron Gabriel Voisin provided the inspiration for the Swiss architect’s radical design ideas for a car-centered urban redevelopment of Paris, the 1935 Avions Voisin C25 Aérodyne is a perfect manifestation of the multitude of correlations between architecture, the car and urban development. Prof. Paolo Tumminelli, director of the Goodbrands Institute, author and professor of Cultural Sciences at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, who created the cultural concept, will head the advisory board of Grand Basel. He also served as the MC of the avant premiere.
Grand Basel will present exceptional automobiles in an exceptional setting: Berlin- based design agency BlueScope has developed the uniform architectural concept in a distinctly contemporary design language. A bold deviation from the often nostalgic ambience of established car events, the design allows for the high- quality presentation and admiration of the exhibits in a surrounding reminiscent of modern museums.
