![[Picture of Vespa Ad]](http://artofdesign.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/vespa_ad.thumbnail.jpg?w=102&h=96)
The motor scooter is a design and style icon. It is post-WW2, it is urban, modernist, 1960s. It represented bohemian chic in Paris, and gritty violent realism in Britain — with the Mods (versus the Rockers). Read the rest of this entry »
The Motor Scooter
2006-08-23
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Design Icons, Everyday Wonders, Icons | Tagged: Aluminium, Cycle, D'Ascanio, Fernando Innocenti, French culture, Italian Culture, Lambretta, Mods, monocoque, Piaggio, Scooter, Torre, Transport, Vespa | 
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Bialetti
2006-07-17![[Picture of Mokas]](http://artofdesign.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/mokas.jpg?w=120&h=85)
There are four crucial ingredients to this design story: Read the rest of this entry »
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