If hanging a poster of a Ferrari on the wall feels a little ordinary, Maranello now offers another option. You can now decorate your home with an actual Ferrari body panel covered in the kind of sketchwork normally associated with a designer’s drawing board.
The idea is called Sketch Body, and it takes sculpted panels from Ferrari road cars and turns them into three-dimensional artwork. Hoods and other body sections are removed from their automotive purpose, mounted for display, and decorated with design sketches.
It’s an unusual way to show how a Ferrari progresses from a few lines on paper into a finished machine. It also means sufficiently dedicated collectors can effectively hang part of an F80, Daytona SP3, Purosangue, or 12Cilindri on the wall.
Ferrari unveiled Sketch Body on September 9 as the latest chapter of its Collectibles project. The company hasn’t announced pricing, production numbers, or detailed availability, although this is unlikely to be an inexpensive way to put Ferrari artwork in your living room.
From Supercar Panel To Canvas
Ferrari says Sketch Body explores the relationship between the initial design idea and the engineering required to turn it into reality. The panels essentially bring those two stages back together by placing the designer’s lines directly onto the finished shape they helped create.
The sketches are associated with Ferrari Chief Design Officer Flavio Manzoni, whose lines flow across the curves and contours of each panel. Rather than reproducing a conventional drawing on a flat surface, the artwork uses the shape of the bodywork itself as part of the composition.
Official images show pieces based on the F80, 12Cilindri, Purosangue, and Daytona SP3. Considering the dramatic shapes involved, Ferrari certainly isn’t short of interesting canvases.
An 812 Competizione Started The Idea
The concept takes inspiration from the one-off Ferrari 812 Competizione Tailor Made revealed in 2023. That car featured a distinctive design-sketch motif across its matte Giallo Tristrato bodywork, making the finished supercar resemble a full-size development drawing.
Sketch Body effectively reverses that idea. Instead of covering an entire Ferrari in design markings, individual panels become standalone pieces that demonstrate the journey from Manzoni’s initial lines to a production body shape.
Ferrari describes the result in typically artistic language, saying the surface becomes a space where the line follows the curves and interacts with the panel’s volumes. Put less poetically, it’s a Ferrari hood with designer sketches on it — although admittedly a very attractive one.
Ferrari Already Sells Pieces Of Its Cars
Sketch Body joins an existing Ferrari Collectibles program that includes Components, Red Pieces, and Drivers’ Pieces. Previous offerings have transformed pieces of Ferrari’s racing history, including Formula 1 components, into display items for collectors.
This latest project shifts the focus more directly toward automotive design rather than mechanical or racing memorabilia. Ferrari has yet to disclose what the Sketch Body pieces will cost, how many it plans to produce, or exactly how customers will be able to purchase them.
Whatever the price, Ferrari has found an interesting solution for anyone who thinks displaying an entire supercar in the living room is slightly excessive. Now you only need to find enough wall space for the hood.