Details
The image
A skyline reduced to a cluster of vertical shapes, seen from the water, with an aircraft crossing the upper part of the sheet. The colour is flat and the perspective is slightly raised, so the city reads as a silhouette rather than as a place.
Where it comes from
Air travel advertising of the 1950s and 1960s sold time and altitude: the city you could reach in an evening, seen from above. Designers answered with a skyline cut out of the sky and an aircraft drawn small, because the point was distance overcome rather than engineering described.
On the wall
It suits a study, an office or a hallway, where a city silhouette gives a wall a horizon. Because the composition is horizontal and the palette limited, it holds a wide wall without weight. In a group it should be the piece that provides the distance.
In company
The rest of the Travel collection holds pieces from the same years and the same printing habits.Avoid hanging it beside a second skyline, two horizons on one wall flatten each other and the aircraft needs a stretch of empty sky above it to read as flight rather than as decoration.
