Over the last few days the crowds at Milan Design Week have been queuing patiently to be let into Italdesign's temporary showroom in Via Tortona 31 to admire, alongside many objects designed by the company's industrial design division, the fascinating 4-door DaVinci coupe.

With its original stylistic features and electric platform, it celebrates the visionary genius of Leonardo on the 500th anniversary of his death. There is another section of the public, though one that is less numerous but perhaps even more knowledgeable than the Milan one.