The culture of cycling shows no signs of slowing down, which is ironic — considering society’s increasingly fervent fascination with a slower pace of life. Gestalten’s new VELO City provides an essential snapshot of our culture as it currently stands.
Living in an age of pop out and handmade bicycles, it’s refreshing to step back and remind ourselves of how these two anomalies came about. Many reasons can be traced back to Europe in the 40s and 50s: Edoardo Bianchi, Pietro Casati, Cino Cinelli, Ernesto Colnago, Giuseppe Daccordi and their contemporaries. Marcello Faggin was another…
