![[Picture of Vespa Ad]](https://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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EB Veyron 16.4
2006-01-10Some years after the founder’s death, the Bugatti brand was all-but-dead in Milan. It was however, revived, and car production resumed — in France. The parent company is German: Volkswagen. The car is therefore thoroughly European in nature and culture.
The original idea was to make a production car that generated over a thousand horsepower… something of a holy grail for the motor car industry, and a design feat that many considered impossible. Read the rest of this entry »
7 Comments | Cars, Design Specials | Tagged: Bugatti, car, Chemistry, Engines, Equations, machine, Math, Maths, Numbers, Paefgen, pax, Physics, Schreiber, Supercar, Transport, Volkswagen, VW | Permalink
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