Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian clothing designer during the time of Coco Chanel’s reign. But her real influence came from the Surrealists and Dadaists. Like a lot of Italians, she fell in love with the Vespa scooter and often featured them in her store windows. (That’s a 1954 Vespa 150 in the photo.) She also incorporated its logo into the silhouette of a pair of folding google-like eyeglasses which may or may not have been produced.
Personally, I’m not seeing the logo. Do you?

These can be found at some Barnes & Noble stores and possible online but I have struck out so far. Good luck!

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Sorry for the bad pun but it couldn’t be contained. We featured Gnome Masters work here this past summer and now he has released a Santa gnome for the holiday season. The price is $40 for an outdoors painted gnome and $45 for an indoors version. He measures 11″ tall and weighs in at 13 lbs and his scooter is painted a metallic glitter red with gold trim.

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This scooter wall art was recently spotted at a “HomeGoods” store which I hear is part of the TJ Maxx/Marshalls chain stores here in the States. It’s priced at $19.99.

Thanks to Karen J. for this find.

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This letterpress printed scooter pop-up was used to promote “Los Vesparados” – a scooter themed art show in Minneapolis circa 2009. By folding it together, you could have your very own paper scooter to ride around on your desk. Must have cost a fortune to do but oh was it worth it.

The art work and design was created by illustrator/photographer/designer Sean Tubridy:

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Letter press and design was created by Todd Thyberg of Angel Bomb Design:

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Here’s one more thing to covet. The poster for the event:

Martin was kind enough to send me some more photos of his stupendous scooterswag collection.

And here’s a link to Scooterswag’s first post about his collection.

Enjoy!

He’s a very generous sheep on a scooter though! In this picture only kids book our sheep shaves off his own wool, dyes it and then has it made into a sweater for a friend. Drawn by illustrator Sylvia Van Ommen. An extreme cuteness factor of 10.

Thanks to Cassie M. for this find!

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Of course not all sheep are so willing to give up their wool. For your viewing pleasure I give you the story of Shrek the Sheep:

Shrek on the BBC

I did this embroidery earlier this year on tea towels and thought ScooterSwaggers would enjoy seeing how they turned out. The tracing pattern is from Sublime Stitching .

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Here we have an archival quality print of a watercolor of two rabbits out for a ride on an orange scooter. It’s signed and numbered by the artist and comes unmounted and unframed. It’s a limited edition and will be only one of 50. The image size is 6″ x 5″ (15 x 11.4cm) with the total paper size at 9″ x 7″ (22.5 x 17.5cm). It’s just $20 and I think this would look completely adorable in a kid’s room.

Thanks to Julie G. for this find!

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Denver, Colorado artist Mike Higgs was inspired by his daughter’s 1978 Vespa Primavera to sculpt this handsome fellow. He even matched the scooter’s tire tread! “Georgio” the gnome is available riding a red, black, blue, green, turquoise, yellow, or orange scooter. Made out of Portland cement, he’s sure to bring years of smiles and you have options on paint type too. For an outdoors gnome it’s $30. For an indoor paint job, it’s $35 or you can get Georgio in bisque, unpainted ready for your own paint job or maybe to look like a classic museum statue? Georgio measures 11.5″ tall and weighs 14 lbs so it costs just $15 to ship in the States and an estimated $60 USD to ship to the UK in 6-10 days. (Please contact Mike via his website for more specific information on overseas shipping.)

Are you disappointed Georgio isn’t on a Lambretta or Rukus? Well Mike is working on other gnome scooterists so sign up for his newsletter on his site and you’ll be the first to know when he’s created a new model. And check out Georgio’s girlfriend Georgette! I had no idea there was such a thing as female gnomes (or for that matter, roller derby gnomes) until this site!

First Tiki Scooter Mugs and now scooterist gnomes . . . It’s been a good summer here at ScooterSwag!

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