Assouline, the world's leading luxury publisher, and Vespa, the Italian house, symbol of elegance, design, and technology, announce a collaboration celebrating eighty years of the most beloved scooter ever made. Born amid the psyche of postwar and named after the wasp, for the buzz of its engine and the cinch of its waist, Vespa arrived not as mere transportation but as a declaration: life can be lived with elegance, spontaneity, and freedom.