I Desire Vintage Posters
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Atherton; 30″ x 20″
Modern technology has enabled a proliferation of international events focussing upon excellence and the changes going on in current history. This poster graphic from one of the most memorably iconic attention getters deftly thrills to a cosmic event no one can afford to miss. Continue reading
A picture’s worth a thousand words—especially as crafted by someone with eyes wide open. Continue reading
We’ve had a (3-point) shot of excitement and dashed hopes these days, courtesy of the basketball Raptors of Toronto (“WE THE NORTH”). Playoff fever is a phenomenon worth thinking about, at an historical juncture where professional team sports have, to a significant extent, taken over the role occupied by tragic theater in the distant past. Continue reading
On these pages we usually draw attention to remarkably finished products of design, not being conversant with or privy to the construction of such delights. We recently had the windfall (reminding us of the opportunity to observe the artisans of HERMES at the Design Exchange last September) to savor the craft of upholstery, due to fortuitously reconnecting with a long lost dear friend from the past, Paul Schofield, a true master of the many outcomes of fabrics. Continue reading
Apres le Diner dans le Parc 1924 Gazette du Bon Ton[GBT]; Andre Marty
We’ve long been ardent admirers of the hand-colored art deco magic of pochoirs, especially those images displaying haute couture for sale. These works were the product of a small number of graphic design giants who were gifted with the instinct to devise and produce moments revealing infinite depths of persons who might be assumed to have no depth at all. An area of this sublimity we’re until now left untouched is that in which smoking cigarettes stands out as a measure of chic and indescribable apprehension.
Here the heavenly attired lady needs a break that the great parkland cannot quite provide. Continue reading
Two British artists, Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, thriving within the mid-century avant-garde, have been linked in an exhibition (2014) organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ashmolean Museum of London. Bacon’s bona fides as a loyalist of the grimmest wing of Surrealism have never been in doubt. But the tortured figuration of Henry Moore’s sculptures has tended to encourage more Stonehenge blissing than I-Mean-You-Baby stepping on expensive shoes. But you know, this extremely valuable exercise makes quite a powerful case for those temperamentally remote practitioners unwittingly setting up a correspondence by which to usefully explore a carnal hotbed of subversion and liberation. The photo above juxtaposes a Moore figure, undergoing not all that terrible deterioration, with a Bacon illustration of emergency-ward-level deformation for life. Continue reading
Though it took longer to catch fire, the lithographic magazine has proved to be as capable of brilliant design and compelling timelessness as the vintage poster. Whereas the poster is limited to public wall display of a specific product or event, the magazine—particularly its cover—can be omnipresent and pertain to a vast range of enticing subjects, made even more timely by a striking cover image.
We ‘ve chosen to start with the oldest and most limited of our items, in a publication, from 1894, promoting a theater-piece pertaining to Falstaff. Why? Because its Arts and Crafts cover strategy, by art nouveau graphic design stalwart, Eugene Grasset maintains an avant-gardist context (still operative) for a long forgotten occasion. Continue reading
Calendar graphics tend to be highly charged impressions, designed to add a dash of fun or awe to mundane meanderings—pin-ups and land/or cityscapes seem to lead the charge. We have a calendar, for 1930, of fine offset renditions of linoleum block prints by Ernest W. Watson (1884-1969) that tends toward landscape but with a charming and thrilling difference. Titled, “A Calendar of Color Symphonies,” by the venerable board game producer, Milton Bradley Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, the point was very much about lingering over the masterful color nuances of Watson’s designs, by virtue of the company’s first-rate lithography resources. The first illustration, for September/October, brings to us golden tones of autumn playing from the sky to the bridge and then to the land. Continue reading
We’re looking forward to the upcoming Cirque du Soleil show in September. Having been thrilled by several of their shows, we know we can count on feats of dynamic marvel to send us home more alert than when we arrive. Continue reading
Electric cars are on the road right now and we have to pause and savor what a shift they bring our way. As you can see from the beautiful and critically acclaimed example shown here, namely, the Tesla Model S (100% electric), the configuration is quite compatible with the general range of recent vehicles redolent of handsome aerodynamics, the latest body finishes and a technical payload facilitating road worthiness and comfort. But the environmental factors hidden within the apparatus induce us to reconsider the traditional gas-driven automobiles carrying a problematic liability comparable to smoking and its hazardous emissions. Continue reading
