Creating a masterpiece.

In 1996, Afzal Kahn drew the RS-R. An alloy wheel unlike anything then on the road, its spokes appearing to flow uninterrupted to the very edge of the rim. The first production run of one thousand wheels sold out entirely, and from that success A. Kahn Design was founded in 1998.

The wheel remains the KAHN® signature. Each is treated as a piece of design in its own right, sculpted, weighted and proportioned to the car it dresses, and it is where every KAHN® transformation still begins.

In the years since the RS-R, the company's wheels have become shorthand for a certain kind of understated authority. Recognised at a glance, never needing to shout. Countless imitators have borrowed the language since. It was written here first.

For Afzal Kahn, it was line and proportion. The understanding that a car, like a well cut suit, succeeds or fails on balance alone. He trained in architecture, but the discipline could not hold him. The automobile could.

What began in West Yorkshire as one man's exacting eye has become one of the most recognisable names in automotive design anywhere in the world. And it began before there was an industry to join. When Afzal Kahn started designing for the road in the mid 1990s, the field of luxury vehicle design beyond the factory gates barely existed. KAHN® was among the very first companies of its kind, and it wrote the rules the rest would follow.

Three decades on, the company that pioneered the discipline is stronger than ever. No longer an aftermarket name at all, but a fully fledged British design house, conceiving, engineering and coachbuilding motor cars of its own.