In 1981 during a brief residence in Los Angeles, Michel organizes two exhibitions of his haïk women, both of which are met with a limited success. Friends who had encouraged him to show in Los Angeles then tried to convince Michel that America being the land of money, there was no limit to the heights you could reach once you met with success.
Aware that so many Californians have an addiction to beautiful cars, a taste he readily understands and shares ever since his youthful years on the French Riviera, Michel resolves there and then to start work
on a collection of car sculptures which he is certain will catch and seduce the Californian eye.


Back in Ghazoua, he gets down to work on designing and realizing his car sculptures in the much prized local thuya wood. His models are inspired from the fabulously luxurious cars of his youth which have since become mythical objects of everyone’s dreams.


Totally original, Michel’s creations give free rein to his unbridled imagination while capitalizing on his extensive knowledge of the art of auto bodybuilding. He draws his inspiration mostly from the 1950s, years of his formative youth and a peak period in the production of superb design in the automobile industry and stars in the cinematic world. It was a time of innocence, filled with unlimited technological progress promising to make life on earth much easier for everyone. Fabulous cars, evermore luxurious and glowing, larger and bursting with power became the ultimate symbol of this happy and optimistic era.


Michel revisits with much pleasure the deep emotions stirred by this creative period of is youth which radiate with the elegance, glamour and style of a bygone era.