{"id":4256,"date":"2016-06-20T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:00:50","slug":"repurposed-vespa-chairs-and-scooters-by-barcelonas-bel-bel-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/20\/repurposed-vespa-chairs-and-scooters-by-barcelonas-bel-bel-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Repurposed Vespa chairs and scooters by Barcelona&#8217;s Bel &#038; Bel Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/Vespa_Scooter.jpg\" alt=\"Bel ^ Bel's Self-Balancing Vespa Scooter\" width=\"501\" height=\"428\" class=\"img_wide_open\">\n\n<p>I came for the chairs; I stayed for the scooters.<\/p>\n<p>Almost everything <em>is<\/em> scooters at Barcelona&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/belybel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bel &#038; Bel Studio<\/a> where old body parts from Vespas, Volkswagens, and other vehicles are repurposed into furniture and other works. They even do full restorations on vintage Vespas&#8230; when they&#8217;re not looting them for their shiny bits.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fanciful office chairs that drew me in. Mind you, I&#8217;m awfully fond of the tired old chair I use here in the Secret Laboratory. But I flirted briefly with these streamlined beauties before I assured my chair that no, no, I would be faithful.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/Vespa_Chairs_B.jpg\" alt=\"Vespa office chair by Bel &amp;  Bel\" width=\"501\" height=\"354\" class=\"img_wide_between\">\n<p>You can see why I was tempted.<\/p>\n<p>But then I scrolled down to the self-balancing scooters, which by any other trademark would be called Segways&#8230; and suddenly I had a vision of myself zipping down the street in the dorkiest way possible, goggled and scarved, and I figured I was home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/Vespa_ScooterB.jpg\" alt=\"Bel &amp; Bel's Vespa self-balancing scooters\" width=\"250\" height=\"506\" class=\"img_flush_left\">\nYou get the idea. If you&#8217;re going to look ridiculous, <em>do it with streamlined style<\/em>. In a perfect world, which at the moment would be a world where I didn&#8217;t need any exercise, you&#8217;d find me rolling off on one of these to the library, or to the grocery store, or down to the harbor, pretty much any day at all. With a big stupid grin on my face and that mounting sense of guilt and dread I get when I&#8217;m not working.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, do yourself a favor by dropping by the <a href=\"http:\/\/belybel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bel &#038; Bel web site<\/a> where you can dream a little, if only for a few minutes. They&#8217;ve got loads of interesting furniture conversions and gadgets, as well as making-of videos. There&#8217;s plenty to keep you occupied.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/Vespa_Chairs_A.jpg\" alt=\"Vespa office chair by Bel &amp; Bel Studios\" width=\"501\" height=\"655\" class=\"img_wide_between\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everything is scooters at Barcelona&#8217;s Bel &#038; Bel Studio where old body parts from Vespas, Volkswagens, and other vehicles are repurposed into furniture and other works. They even do full restorations on vintage Vespas&#8230; when they&#8217;re not looting them for their shiny bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}