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# Flavio Manzoni · HICONIUM

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People · Designer · b. 1965

Flavio

l’architetto di Maranello

| Label | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Nuoro, Sardinia, 1965 |
| Trained | Architecture, Florence |
| House | Ferrari Styling Centre, 2010– |
| In the register | Fourteen files |

The in-house era

Since January 2010, Manzoni has led Ferrari’s design from within. LaFerrari was the first road car styled entirely by the company rather than Pininfarina, and everything since — special series, one-offs, an Icona, a supercar — has been drawn a corridor away from the engineers it answers to.

An architect by training — Florence, with an industrial-design specialisation — he arrived through the interiors of Lancia and SEAT, the design direction of Fiat, and Volkswagen Group’s creative studios. His constant claim is that form and function are developed together, not sequentially; the register below holds the fourteen files where that argument is documented.

## Form and function, developed as one

The register

## From LaFerrari to the F80

[![Ferrari LaFerrari staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-laferrari/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2013 ### LaFerrari Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The first Ferrari road car styled entirely by the company rather than Pininfarina. Manzoni’s team drew it in close cooperation with the technical departments — the in-house era begins here. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/laferrari) [![Ferrari F12tdf staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-f12-tdf/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2015 ### Ferrari F12tdf Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre A special series named for the Tour de France endurance race Ferrari dominated in the 1950s and 1960s. His team owned the body and its aerodynamic treatment. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f12-tdf) [![Ferrari Daytona SP3 staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-daytona-sp3/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2022 ### Daytona SP3 Chief design officer · Ferrari Design The second Icona, named for the 1967 Daytona 1–2–3. Manzoni’s team translated 1960s sports-prototype language into contemporary, passive-aero forms — the shape does the aerodynamic work. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/daytona-sp3) [![Ferrari 12Cilindri staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-12cilindri/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2024 ### Ferrari 12Cilindri Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The 812’s sculptural language replaced with a geometric visor and split active rear surfaces — a deliberate new design language for the front-mid-engined V12 line, led by function rather than retro replication. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/12cilindri) [![Ferrari F80 staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-f80/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2025 ### Ferrari F80 Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The narrow 1+ cabin, the visor front, the active-aero body — developed with engineering, aerodynamics and ergonomics in continuous collaboration. The supercar as one integrated argument. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f80)

[![Ferrari LaFerrari staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-laferrari/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2013 ### LaFerrari Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The first Ferrari road car styled entirely by the company rather than Pininfarina. Manzoni’s team drew it in close cooperation with the technical departments — the in-house era begins here. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/laferrari)

[![Ferrari F12tdf staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-f12-tdf/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2015 ### Ferrari F12tdf Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre A special series named for the Tour de France endurance race Ferrari dominated in the 1950s and 1960s. His team owned the body and its aerodynamic treatment. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f12-tdf)

[![Ferrari Daytona SP3 staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-daytona-sp3/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2022 ### Daytona SP3 Chief design officer · Ferrari Design The second Icona, named for the 1967 Daytona 1–2–3. Manzoni’s team translated 1960s sports-prototype language into contemporary, passive-aero forms — the shape does the aerodynamic work. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/daytona-sp3)

[![Ferrari 12Cilindri staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-12cilindri/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2024 ### Ferrari 12Cilindri Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The 812’s sculptural language replaced with a geometric visor and split active rear surfaces — a deliberate new design language for the front-mid-engined V12 line, led by function rather than retro replication. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/12cilindri)

[![Ferrari F80 staged in a darkened scene](https://hiconium.dev/_derived/images/cars/ferrari-f80/hero-wide-2560.jpg.w1920.q75.webp) 2025 ### Ferrari F80 Design director · Ferrari Styling Centre The narrow 1+ cabin, the visor front, the active-aero body — developed with engineering, aerodynamics and ergonomics in continuous collaboration. The supercar as one integrated argument. Open the file](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f80)

Also in the register

### From the 458 Speciale to the KC23

[2013 458 Speciale Active-aero special series, developed with Pininfarina.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/458-speciale)

[2014 F12 TRS Two-car Special Projects commission.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/f12-trs)

[2018 488 Pista Competition aerodynamics translated to a road body.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/488-pista)

[2019 P80/C One-off on a competition chassis, after the 330 P3/P4.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/p80-c)

[2020 Omologata One-off, more than two years from first sketches.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/omologata)

[2021 812 Competizione Fixed rear panel, aero treatment, cabin revisions.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/812-competizione)

[2022 SP48 Unica Client-briefed one-off on the F8 Tributo platform.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/sp48-unica)

[2023 KC23 One-off on 488 GT3 Evo architecture.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/kc23)

[2025 296 Speciale New aero surfaces, F80-referencing tail.](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/ferrari/296-speciale)

Signature strokes

## The visor, the vent, the subtraction

### Design inside engineering

The Styling Centre sits in synergy with engineering — external surface linked to internal component, form developed with the machine, never applied afterward.

### Aero made legible

The 296 Speciale wears its downforce; the Daytona SP3 uses passive aero as the formal driver. The technical function is the visible subject, not a secret.

### Subtraction

The team’s stated method is removing the superfluous. Recent cars are volume-led and clean — nothing decorates, everything works.

### Heritage without retro

The 296 GTB draws on the 250 LM’s compact architecture; the Daytona SP3 on 1960s prototypes. Source material, never a template.

### The visor

Wraparound visor glazing, tried on the J50 and P80/C, returns on the 12Cilindri and F80 — the cabin read as a single optical band.

The archive

## Prints from the studio

Event photographs, an editorial portrait and one reconstruction — choose a print and it pushes the others aside.

Paris Motor Show, 2018. Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Before Maranello

## From the Lybra to the Fulvia Coupé

### Lancia and Maserati interiors

#### Lancia Lybra

Complete interior design for saloon and station wagon.

#### Maserati 3200 GT

Complete interior-design work, presented in 1998.

#### Lancia Dialogos

Concept-car interior.

#### Lancia Thesis

Interior-design programme.

### SEAT interior programmes

#### SEAT Salsa

Show-car interior project.

#### SEAT Altea

Complete interior-design project.

#### SEAT Salsa Emoción

Complete interior, shown at Paris in 2000.

#### SEAT Tango

Complete interior for the concept, Geneva 2001.

### Lancia design direction

#### Lancia Granturismo

Concept project.

#### Lancia Ypsilon

Coordinated production project.

#### Lancia Musa

Coordinated project, shown at Geneva in 2004.

#### Lancia Fulvia Coupé

Coordinated concept, shown at IAA Frankfurt and Bologna.

The houses

Manzoni’s house is the one he runs: the Ferrari Styling Centre, which under his direction became the sole author of the marque’s road cars — LaFerrari the first styled entirely in-house. The path there ran through the interiors studios of Lancia and SEAT, the design direction of the Fiat Group, and Volkswagen Group’s creative-design directorship.

Chief design officer, Ferrari, 2010–

1993–1999 [![Lancia](https://hiconium.dev/images/marques/full/lancia.svg)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/lancia) Designer; led Lancia interiors from 1996

1999–2001

SEAT, Spain

Interior-design responsibility

2001–2006

Fiat Group

Head of design, Lancia, Fiat and LCV

2007–2010

Volkswagen Group

Director of creative design

2010– [![Ferrari](https://hiconium.dev/images/marques/full/ferrari.svg)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/ferrari) Head of design; today chief design officer

In his words

“Perhaps it is only experts who can really appreciate just how interconnected form and function have become.”

Flavio Manzoni · Ferrari Magazine, 2020