Design · Sculpture · Bodywork
The gesture and the soul before the pixel.
In an all-digital age, a Ravage is still born from the gesture of the hand and the intention of the designer. A line, a volume of clay, a blade seeking the right reflection. Then, and only then, the machine.
01 · The line
It all starts with a hand that draws.
A sketch is not only an image. It is, above all, a temperament, an attitude. What the designer’s hand decides here, the stance, the tension, the momentum, will show through in every surface of your Ravage.
It is then up to us to tame the whole digital process, so that this soul is not lost along the way and arrives intact in the finished car.
© Antonino Lo Re · LO RE Design
© Antonino Lo Re · LO RE DesignA craft that only a few exceptional carmakers have kept.
Sculpting a body by hand, at full scale, is the privilege of a handful of studios in the world. Those of exceptional cars. The others draw on screen, print, approve. At Ravage, the volume is first sought in clay, with the eye and the palm, before it enters the computer.
This is not nostalgia. It is the only way to feel a surface: the tension of a wing, the light running along a flank, the exact point where a line must break. The screen doesn’t know. The hand does.
Antonino Lo Re, creative director. Formerly Aston Martin and McLaren.
02 · The clay
A volume is sculpted. It is not calculated.
Clay, this industrial modelling clay that is warmed, applied, scraped, has been the tool of the great automotive design studios for seventy years. We use it at full scale, on the car. Every wing, every bumper of the Groupe 4 has been through it.
We add, we remove, we step back three metres, we come back. Until the line holds under any light.
03 · The light
We don’t draw lines. We sculpt light.
At Ravage, we don’t trace lines on a car. We control the way the world reflects on it: the sky sliding over a bonnet, the street running along a flank, the light catching an edge and then letting it go. This work on reflections is what makes a body sensual, and what makes it timeless, because light never goes out of fashion.
To check it, we stretch a mirror film over the clay. It tells the truth: a surface that dives too early, an edge that hesitates, a flat that ripples. So we start again, as many times as it takes. It isn’t stubbornness: it is a quest for beauty. A beauty that depends on neither fashion nor era, and the guarantee that your car will still be beautiful to your eyes for a long time. A very long time.
04 · Then the machine
Technology in the service of the hand. Never the other way round.
Once the shape is right, we scan it. The sculpted volume becomes a digital model, a mould, a carbon part. CAD, simulation, digital cutting: we use everything the era offers. But the decision, the one that gives a Ravage its presence, was made before, in the workshop, with the hands.
The 3D configurator is the final step: what you compose on screen first existed in clay.
3D scan
from clay to digital
CAD
moulds and parts
Carbon
made in France
Configurator
yours, in 3D
Studio Ravage · Design and strategy
Design, strategy, build: the Ravage studio also works for you.
The Ravage studio also designs cars for others, whether a private individual, a start-up or a carmaker. Concept cars, production cars, design strategy: nearly twenty years at Mercedes-Benz, McLaren and Aston Martin, and a network of workshops, engineers and suppliers found nowhere else. From the first line to the delivered car, we support those who want to bring to life a car that does not exist yet.
Entrust a project to the studioFor whom
A private individual
Your one-off, from the idea to the delivered car. Design, model, bodywork, homologation.
A start-up
A credible first vehicle, fast, with the right partners. Concept, design, demonstrator.
A carmaker
Limited series, special edition, art direction or design strategy, in full discretion.
Yours starts with a line.
Every Ravage is unique, drawn, sculpted and built in France. Let’s talk about yours.