Maison 64 of 100 · Automotive
Aston Martin
The reading
British proportion, Italian-adjacent emotion, a balance sheet that has been a character in its own drama. New mid-engine Valhalla is the attempt to be a sports-car company again rather than only a beautiful GT company.
The house
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1913
- Atelier
- Automotive
- Ownership
- Independent / Yew Tree
- Signature
- DB12 / Vantage / Valhalla
- Register note
- Bond + Gaydon This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
It is the 43rd-oldest house in the register. Within the register it is the 6th of the fifteen houses filed under Automotive. It is one of nine maisons filed here from the United Kingdom, level with the United States as the fourth-largest national group in the register. The register records its ownership as Independent / Yew Tree, one of the thirteen independent houses among the hundred — the others include Hermès, Burberry, The Row, Brunello Cucinelli, Graff, and seven more. Founding years under Automotive run 1904–2015; the median is 1947, and this house predates it by thirty-four years.