Just like the famous Cisitalia, the Pininfarina Nido is set to become part of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From October 16th 2005 to January 2nd 2006 the safety research prototype Nido, realised by Pininfarina, will be among the protagonists of SAFE: Design Takes on Risk, the first major design exhibition at MoMA since its reopening in 2004.

SAFE redefines the design’s aim showing its potentialities to face problems of the twenty first Century. The exhibition will present more than three hundred contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect the body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, to respond to emergencies, and to provide a sense of comfort and security.

The combination of design and safety, in a convergence among aesthetics, functionality and technology, is well represented in Nido, which was presented in a world preview during the Paris Motor Show in 2004, winning the 'Most Beautiful Car of the Year' award in the 'Prototype and Concept Car category'.
 

The Nido project is based on the development and prototyping of new solutions involving both the structure and the design of a small two-seater car with the objective of increasing levels of internal safety, involving directly the passengers transported, and the external one, designed to limit the damages to pedestrians in case of collision.

Nido is not in fact the first Pininfarina’s creation to be showed in the famed New Yorker museum: as back in 1947, the Cisitalia 202 SC, designed by the Founder Battista “Pinin” Farina, was the first car in the world permanently displayed in the MoMA as “one of the eight wonders of our time”.