He continues to paint every day in his Orange County, California studio.

"It had an edge," he says, "but the California studios weren't looking for edges."

He was born in Bradford in 1937 and now works from his California studio.

Most automakers have California studios now, but Nissan's was among the first.

Mr. Parretti owned 98.5 percent of the stock in the California studio.

In May 2010, the band gathered at a California studio to begin re-recording some of their older hits for licensing reasons.

And about ten days later, she recorded a breathtaking game-day master at a California studio.

Before executing his designs, the painter worked out every detail of lighting and color on a scale model in his California studio.

In all, more than 1.2 million vehicles designed by the California studio have been sold in the United States.

The material dates from 1970, the year he sold the contents of his Venice, California studio, to 1996.