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Keep Your Fire Escapes Clear Poster
From: 20,40 € A warning reduced to a graphic: simple drawing, large blunt lettering, colour used to demand attention rather than to please. Mid-century civic signage applied the same discipline as commercial posters, because the message had to work without anyone choosing to look. It was read by people walking past at speed,
Tricolor Balloon Poster
From: 20,40 € Tricolor Balloon Poster is a beautiful representation of the pioneering era of hot air ballooning, featuring a detailed illustration of the "Le Tricolore" balloon, a symbol of adventure and the human spirit of exploration. With its vintage aesthetic and meticulous detail, this poster captures the essence of a bygone era,
Les Diablerets Vintage Ski Poster
From: 20,40 € A snow field rising to a ridge, skiers small against the slope, the sky flat and pale, lettering unobtrusive at the base. Swiss ski resorts built their advertising on one proposition, the mountain exists, come and stand on it and answered with space rather than detail. The snow is bare
Cannes 1946 Poster
From: 20,40 € A central emblem with lettering arranged symmetrically above and below, restrained palette, formal drawing. The Cannes Film Festival held its first edition in 1946 after years of wartime postponement, and its early posters were designed as cultural statements rather than as advertising. The restraint is the message: a festival announcing
Montreux Vintage Ski Poster
From: 20,40 € A mountain drawn as a solid mass against a pale sky, a train suggested by a line entering from one side, skiers reduced to small dark figures on the slope. Swiss resort posters of the mid-century sold access as much as altitude: the mountain was the picture, but the railway
Take a Kodak with You Poster
From: 20,40 € A landscape with a figure in the foreground holding a small camera, the scene behind reduced to bands of colour, lettering set as a line across the lower third. Camera advertising between the wars sold memory rather than optics: take the picture, keep the day and the formula survived into
Zermatt 1932 Poster
From: 20,40 € A mountain as a solid mass against a pale sky, snow suggested by absence of colour, a single line of track leading in, lettering small at the base. Swiss resorts sold altitude and air before they sold skiing and the thirties posters developed a language of geometry instead of scenery.
Affiche Nana de Herrera Poster
From: 20,40 € A figure in flat, saturated colour against a plain ground, the lettering built into the composition rather than placed on top. This is the commercial poster at its peak: the face reduced to a sign, the pose readable at ten paces, the colour doing all the persuasion. Bold enough for
Georges Bourgeois L'Inhumaine Poster
From: 20,40 € Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Inhumaine was a 1924 film built as a showcase for modern design, with sets by painters and architects of the day. Georges Bourgeois drew the poster as pure Art Deco: stepped geometry, a profile in silhouette and lettering that behaves like architecture. It suits a hallway or a
Edvard Munch Man's Head in Woman's Hair Poster
From: 20,40 € A face half buried in a mass of hair that fills most of the sheet, lines loose, colour thin, no background and no distance. Norwegian painting at the end of the nineteenth century turned to subjects considered private, anxiety, jealousy, illness and the handling here is deliberately unfinished.
Grand Prix Bern 1933 Motorcycle Poster
From: 20,40 € A rider leaning into a bend, machine and man drawn as one dark silhouette against a solid red ground, the dates 1 and 2 July set across the top in heavy capitals. The poster announces the Grand Prix in Bern of 1933, when motorcycle racing filled the Swiss circuit and
Vintage Expo Paris Poster
From: 20,40 € Industry laid out as a composition: a central structure, figures in motion, lettering above and below like a fairground announcement. World fairs presented products, colonies and ideas of the future all in one park, and their posters had to work at the scale of a boulevard. Seen from a distance.
The Byrds Poster
From: 20,40 € Flat colour and hand-set lettering, the band name large and slightly irregular, the image simplified to a few shapes with text wrapping around it. Mid-1960s concert posters were printed cheaply for a single night; The Byrds stood at the folk-rock edge of that scene, and their posters became collectable.
Geneve Hippique Vintage Poster
From: 20,40 € A horse and rider drawn in profile, the neck arched and the rider leaning forward, ground suggested by a band of colour. The poster was made by the Swiss painter Maurice Barraud for the Concours Hippique in Geneva in 1943 and it carries his knowledge of the ring: the horse
Classic Cinema Icon Poster
From: 20,40 € A single object presented as a monument: a silhouette centred on a plain ground, lettering formal beneath it, no scene and no depth. Film advertising learned early that a symbol travelled further than a still, a hat, a profile, a gesture could sell a picture before anyone knew its title.
Moon Series Artistic Poster
From: 20,40 € A moon reduced to a disc, its surface suggested by a few textured marks, the sky a flat field of colour, composition centred and scale deliberately ambiguous. It could be graphic or a portrait. Images of the moon sit between illustration and diagram and contemporary graphic work borrowed both habits
New York Fly Poster
From: 20,40 € A skyline reduced to a cluster of vertical shapes seen from the water, an aircraft crossing the upper part of the sheet, colour flat, perspective slightly raised. Air travel advertising of the 1950s and 1960s sold time and altitude: the city reachable in an evening, seen from above.
Green Line Vintage Travel Poster
From: 20,40 € A coach drawn in profile on a road that curves out of the frame, the landscape reduced to hedges and a band of sky, lettering large above the vehicle. Coach companies sold the journey rather than the destination, a seat, a route, a day out and posters answered with a
Italy Railway Travel Poster
From: 20,40 € A landscape along a diagonal: a lake in the middle distance, hills behind, a shoreline in front, lettering small at the base. Railway companies sold scenery as much as seats and Italian posters of the 1920s and 1930s answered with three bands of colour and one horizon. The restraint is
Paris for the Weekend Poster
From: 20,40 € A city reduced to a few landmarks seen from above, a river bending through them, the sky pale and wide, the lettering confident and set high. The weekend trip became a mass idea in the 1950s and 1960s, when flying stopped being exceptional and airlines began selling the city rather
1930 Monaco Grand Prix Racing Poster
From: 20,40 € A racing car forced into the foreground, its body reduced to a few pale shapes and its wheels smeared into ellipses, the city behind held flat like a stage backdrop. Posters of the late 1920s and 1930s were drawn by illustrators who understood that a car is mostly movement and
Spring Fashions Arrival Poster
From: 20,40 € A figure in the clothes of the season, light line, flat colour, lettering set around the silhouette rather than above it, the pose turned so the garment reads as a shape. Department stores used illustrated posters to announce each season long before photography took over fashion advertising. A drawn silhouette
Aeropostale Vintage Poster
From: 20,40 € AEROPOSTALE across the top in a heavy blue band, then a red and cream mail plane banking over palms, a sugarloaf mountain and a small white church tower. Below it: SERVICO POSTAL AEREO, EUROPA – AFRICA – SUL AMERICA, and the company’s office address in Rio. Pigment print on 210 gsm
CafiAspirina Pain Relief Poster
From: 20,40 € A product presented as a promise: the package drawn large, a gesture beside it, lettering confident above, palette warm, composition frontal. Patent medicine advertising between the wars was among the most inventive graphic work in Europe and Latin America, strong shape, one colour, a claim. The grammar is the same
Winter Sports Vintage Poster
From: 20,40 € A slope drawn as a diagonal plane, figures small and leaning into the turn, the sky one flat colour, lettering tucked into a corner. Winter tourism built its advertising on one claim, the snow is there, come down the hill and answered with geometry rather than detail. The slope is
Swiss Vintage Ski Poster
From: 20,40 € Samaden, in the Engadin: a skier in red carving down a slope, poles crossed, a small monoplane hanging in a pale sky above the peaks, and the resort name written across the snow in red script. The mountains are flat planes of blue and white, the light is morning. Pigment print
Vintage posters, and the hand that drew them
The vintage sheets here were drawn before a photograph could carry a page, so every shape was decided by a hand and every word of lettering was drawn to fit the picture.
The Geneva horse show poster from the mid-forties, two horses' heads in profile against a blue sky, with small riders sketched along the bottom, is a drawing first and an advertisement second. The Munch sheet, a man's head resting inside a mass of yellow-green hair on a red ground, goes further: the hair becomes the border of the picture and the lettering is stacked above it like a title page.
Neither would be made in the same way today, which is the reason to hang them.