What did the Thin White Duke and the not-so-thin Commendatore have in common? We speak, naturally, of British musician David Bowie and Italian racing giant Enzo Ferrari, two highly motivated, 20th-century men who in life shared the enormity of their dreams but little else. Except for one thing: they both saved everything.
Secure from youth in the knowledge that they’d one day become well known, and would be reverently scrutinized following their deaths, both men had a penchant for documenting and preserving their creative output. This was illustrated vividly by a trip I took a few years back to the Bowie traveling museum show, and another just the other week to the premises of Ferrari’s Classiche (Classics) operation in Maranello, Italy.
