Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Octane Magazine

    MUSÉE MAURICE DUFRESNE

    Oct 21, 2020 2 minutes
    Words Barry Wiseman
    Images Alamy

    WE ALL HAVE A friend like Maurice Dufresne. Perhaps it’s you? He or she is the person who finds what looks like a worthless item, but thinks: ‘I’ll put this aside – just in case it comes in useful one day.’

    Maurice Dufresne definitely had that mindset. At the age of 22,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Octane Magazine

    Octane Magazine3 min read
    1936 Austin Seven Ruby
    I ACQUIRED THIS charming little Ruby in September 2019 after searching for it for a couple of years, because my father had owned it during the 1980s. I come from a family in the motor trade and we had garages in Newbury and Wantage, the latter set up
    Octane Magazine11 min read
    Biting Back
    This is not merely a mark left on my memory. Instead, it was branded, with all the hissing and the smoke that come with that, and I can let the film play in my head at any given moment. It was 1999, my first big assignment as a rookie journalist, com
    Octane Magazine3 min read
    Stephen Bayley
    I’ve met a lot of the great car designers, but I never met Marcello Gandini. Although I did very nearly meet him… in a Milan court. Gandini famously had what you might call an artistic temperament and he was apparently inclined to go to law over any

    Related Books & Audiobooks