California-based Icon is bringing collectively artists and impartial manufacturers from everywhere in the nation for a one-day charity occasion known as Icons of Design. Held within the Los Angeles space, the present will characteristic a few of Icon’s resto-modded automobiles together with the work of quite a few different artists.
The recently-unveiled 1,000-horsepower 1970 Chevrolet Suburban (pictured) will make its public debut on the occasion. It is the primary Suburban modified by Icon, and it price over $1 million to construct. Different manufacturers from the automotive area will take part within the occasion, together with a agency known as Ruffian Automobiles that places a contemporary spin on traditional Ford fashions such because the Galaxie 500, Porsche builder Singer, and Meyers Manx.
Non-automotive manufacturers will get the chance to showcase their tackle artwork as properly. Artists and artisans who concentrate on clothes, sneakers, watches, jewellery, and antiques could have a stand on the Icons of Design occasion. A number of the objects displayed will probably be on the market, whereas others will merely showcase what every artist or firm is able to. Meals vehicles, reside music, and cocktails are a part of this system, too.
“As as serial craftsman who loves to explore different arts, I have a large network of creative friends who do a wide range of arts. To me, transportation design is a unique and extraverted convergence of so many different arts, materials, and skills. This is what originally drove me toward this career. So, I thought up this event as a great way to bring all of the different tribes together for a great cause,” Icon founder and CEO Jonathan Ward informed Autoblog.
Icon’s Icons of Design occasion will open its doorways on Sunday, November 19 at 9 a.m. native time on the Hagerty Storage + Social in Van Nuys, California. Tickets price $35, and Icon factors out 100% of the web proceeds from the occasion will profit susceptible youngsters world wide. And, it’s possible you’ll want to create space in your storage earlier than you go: Icon will public sale off considered one of its Toyota FJ40-based builds through the present.