Tipo di misura: altezzaxlunghezza; Unità di misura: cm; Spessore: 96x165; Tipo di misura: spessore; Unità di misura: cm; Spessore: 79

The scooter, equipped with a spare tire, was also light and maneuverable, versatile in the posture required of the driver, who, comfortably seated, could accommodate a second passenger. An icon par excellence of Made in Italy and of the economic boom, the Vespa, designed for Piaggio in Pontedera by aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio, represents a symbol of the operational ways in which Italian design made its mark internationally in the postwar years. Taking advantage of the industrial know-how of Piaggio, which was engaged in the war years in the production of warplanes, D'Ascanio's design for a new agile means of locomotion in fact included the use of the small starter engine of airplanes. In a short time the Vespa thus established itself as an emblem of the country's economic rebirth, and its planetary success was further strengthened, in the imagination of the time, by the spread of its image in films such as William Wyler's famous “Roman Holiday” (1953).