Dutch designer Piet Olyslager and French Elegance

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Sometimes a small find in an attic can rewrite history. Just like us Dutch journalist John Mulder has been a collector of the drawings by Piet Olyslager since he was a little boy. Olyslager (1915-1993) was a Dutch artist of whom we have shown you some of his work before. But now the story goes much further as only recently John found a manuscript of an auto-biography that Piet Olyslager wrote in 1975 but never published. In this manuscript Piet writes that shortly after the war he started to design both sports and luxury cars. As in Holland the market for this kind of work was small, even non-existing, he went to France where he sold some of his drawings, met with racing driver Jean-Pierre Wimille and through him was introduced to Anthony Lago. He liked Piet's work very much and asked him to design the body for Talbot-Lago. The one shown above is a beautiful proposal for a Grand-Sport, but Olyslager also designed formal limousines on the T26-chassis. Olyslager kept on working for Talbot, even after the factory was bought by Simca in 1959. What a wonderful find this manuscript is, just look at all these Talbot Lago radiator designs for the early fifties!
(photos collection John Mulder)

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