Using A Display From The Gap As Home Art: a house log

A couple of weeks ago we were at the Gap and I spotted this on the wall.

It is a bicycle from Public Bikes that was disassembled and shot for this in-store display (thereby they are not for sale). I thought they were fairly darn good looking. I am more of a bike admirer than an actual bike rider (apologies to my cycling enthusiast father), so I feel like a bit of a poser saying this, but… I truly want those posters to hang in our house. Not sure where, but somewhere. Here is a better shot of one of the panels from the Public Bikes journal.

I talked with the manager at my local Gap and they “made a note” to call me when they are done using them for display. This was promising because I expected to hear “sorry, we are not allowed to give those away” (which I have heard at other stores when I have asked, like Target). But it was not totally confidence inspiring either – because it sounded a bit like a “do not call us, we will call you.” So I also chose to randomly tweet about wanting them once the store is done with them, and a Gap manager elsewhere heard my plea and is going to try to snag me a set once they are bumped for holiday decor. Oh the power of Twitter. Who knows if it’ll in fact work out, but I gave it the ol’ college try.

Is there any store display out there that you’ve been admiring (or thinking about recreating/DIYing)? Perhaps something at Anthropologie? Have any of you used actual store decor in your home? If so, how’d you go about getting it? Was tweeting involved? Or simply regular old fashioned in-person asking? We consistently hear about folks who simply get a call weeks or months later when the store is done with something (like friends of mine who got movie posters from Blockbuster when they were wrapped up displaying them as new releases). Fingers crossed…