$4,546Sale Price|20% Off
Huge Vintage Barbarella Movie Poster in White Frame
Located in Berlin, DE
Huge vintage Barbarella movie poster in white frame.
Paper
1969 Disneyland - Stage Coach Ride - Frontierland Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
This beautiful mid century marvel is in fantastic condition, it was displayed and available in the park over 55 years ago.
Paper
Alexander Calder Haus der Kunst Munich Original German Exhibition Poster 1975
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Studio City, CA
Would be a great addition to any Calder or Mid-Century exhibition poster collection or make for an eye catching stand alone accent artwork once framed.
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Finmar Fair Liberty Zero Midcentury Modern
By Hans Schleger Zero
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Liberty Finmar Fair exhibition held at the department store in London from 9-25 October on the Fourth Floor featuring a great mid-century ...
Paper
David Hockney 1986 Pear Blossom Highway Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
David Hockney 1986 Pear Blossom Highway Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster Amazing, Out-of-Print, original, 1986 David Hockney Exhibition Lithograph Poster, entitled "Pear Blosso...
Paper
'Batman' Original Vintage Australian Daybill Movie Poster, 1966
Located in Devon, GB
"For the first time on the motion picture screen in color!" Printed in stunning stone lithography, this fabulously kitsch and colourful Australian Daybill poster advertised the first...
Paper, Linen
$300Sale Price|62% Off
”Garden Of Evil” Original US Film Poster, 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
Original US version of this Garden Of Evil film poster. Numbered on lower right hand corner, 54/268. Some minor ware as seen on last picture. Garden of Evil (1954) is a Western film...
Paper
$300Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage "South Coast Village" Poster by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage "South coast village, Santa Ana, California" poster by Peter Max, circa 1973. The poster announces the grand opening of the shopping center in August '73 and is quite rare. I...
Paper
Gauthier Champagne H Germain Original Vintage Poster, c. 1970
By Alain Gauthier
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The Champagne Germain poster by Alain Gauthier is a striking and elegant example of French advertising design from the 1980s. Gauthier, a celebrated French illustrator and poster art...
Linen, Paper
Vintage Poster Caricature of Niki Lauda, 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
In original condition No damages Sometimes scratches.
Glass, Wood, Paper
1967 San Francisco Psychedelic Era Concert Poster - Janis Joplin - by Krefting
Located in San Diego, CA
Original 1967 San Francisco concert poster designed by Krefting, advertising a benefit performance by Big Brother and the Holding Company during the height of the psychedelic era. Th...
Paper
1963 from Russia with Love Original Vintage Poster
By Renato Fratini
Located in Winchester, GB
"From Russia With Love" marked the second film in the James Bond series and the second outing for Sean Connery in the titular role. The film was a huge critical and commercial succes...
Linen, Paper
Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster Advertising, 'Bemberg', c. 1970
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster Advertising, 'Bemberg', c. 1970 Artist Rene Gruau Condition Excellent Year c. 1970 Dimensions: 100 x 140 Format Linen backed This is a rar...
Paper
1951 Pan American World Airways Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Wonderful & rare poster created in 1951 for Pan American World Airways, widely known as Pan Am. Depicting four gorgeous scenes featuring wildlife on a nature reserve, a local village...
Linen, Paper
$156Sale Price|20% Off
Midcentury Original "Anne De Francony Galerie" Portrait Poster by Roland Oublot
Located in Miami, FL
Original vintage poster from well-known gallery in the south of France. Portrait Art by Roland Oublot. Galerie de Francony was founded by Geoffroy de Francony to promote the works ...
Paper
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Linocut Poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Diego, CA
Highly collectible and rare linocut poster "Vallavris Exhibition 1954" by Pablo Picasso, circa 1954.. The print is in good vintage and measures 24" x 30". It is presented in a simple...
Paper, Wood
Vintage Ikea Knista Rubber Ducks Warhol Style Poster on Board
By IKEA
Located in Pasadena, TX
This is an iconic poster from Ikea. It depicts rubber ducks done in an Andy Warhol style. The poster is on board.
Paper
$375Sale Price|58% Off
Original Vintage Chinese Propanda Poster, Dare to Contribute...1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Dare to Contribute Youth to the People, Being Scared of Nothing With the Raising Sun in Mind". Bright, vivid colors. Framed with...
Acrylic, Paper
'Paris-Champagne' Original Vintage French Movie Poster, 1964
By Sinclare
Located in Devon, GB
Although the film itself is somewhat unknown, released only in France and the Netherlands, this stunning French Moyenne poster for the 1964 Pierre Armand melodrama 'Paris-Champagne' ...
Paper, Linen
Vintage Jefferson Airplane Concert Poster by Greg Irons, Bill Graham, 1967
Located in San Diego, CA
Super rare original 1967 concert poster designed by Greg Irons, produced for performances by Jefferson Airplane and presented in San Francisco by legendary promoter Bill Graham at th...
Paper
1970s Space Age Morley Underwear Advertising Poster in Original Frame
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A striking and humorous Space Age advertising display for Morley Underwear, dating from the 1970s. The graphic composition features a futuristic astronaut seated before a computer co...
Paper
$900Sale Price|50% Off
Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Kiss Poster 1964 Original Ltd. #562
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Miami, FL
Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Kiss Poster 1964 Original Ltd. #562 Offered for sale is a Roy Lichtenstein pop art poster from 1964 Original Ltd. #562 published by Mitchell Lichtenstein. ...
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
May 68 Original Vintage French Political Poster, 'Camarades Ouvriers !'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
May 68 Original Vintage French Political Poster 'Finissons-en avec la Vè chaîne' In May 1968, students and workers took to the streets of Paris to protest the government through mas...
Paper
$950Sale Price|67% Off
Original Vintage Chinese Propanda Poster, Anti-Lin Campaign, 1974
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT To reduce shipping cost, this will be shipped unframed. An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Anti-Lin Biao Campaign". Text translation: "Ruthlessly criticize Lin ...
Acrylic, Paper
1967 Hopetown International Moto Cross Poster by Earl Newman
By Earl Newman
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A vintage 1967 Dirt Diggers Hopetown motorcycle Grand Prix and International Moto Cross poster by California artist Earl Newman. Signed in the plate this was one of the earliest uses...
Paper
Richard Anuszkiewicz Op Art "The Yellows" Screenprint Poster, 1970
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New Windsor, NY
Op Art screen print poster by Richard Anuszkiwicz, circa 1970. Signed in the print, Anuszkiewicz lower right corner. Titled, "The Yellows" distributed by Synergism, 601, Minnesota St...
Paper
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
'Sea Bath' Original Vintage Poster, Shanghai, Circa. 1940's
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Sea Bath' Original Vintage Poster, Shanghai, Circa. 1940's This is an original vintage poster, published by Su Hsuen Tsa Printing Co. Road Shanghai This poster has been linen back...
Paper
Brenet, Original Travel Poster, Messageries Maritimes, Liner, Indochina, 1950
By Albert Brenet
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This poster by Brenet created circa 1950 was produced to promote tourism all over the world by boat via the Messageries Maritimes. Artist : Albert Brenet (1903 - 2005) Title : Messa...
Paper
Vintage anatomic school poster The Blood System East Germany 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Introducing a vintage anatomic school poster titled "The Blood System," produced by the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, East Germany (GDR), during the 1970s. This educational ca...
Canvas
Brenet, Original Travel Poster, Messageries Maritimes, Navigation, Japan, 1954
By Albert Brenet
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This poster by Brenet created circa 1954 was produced to promote tourism all over the world by boat via the Messageries Maritimes. Artist : Albert Brenet (1903 - 2005) Title : Messa...
Paper
Brenet, Original Travel Poster, Transatlantique, Antilles, Venezuela, Liner 1950
By Albert Brenet
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This poster by Brenet created circa 1950 was produced to promote tourism in South America Venezuela country and Antilles by boat/liner via the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (CGT...
Paper
$375Sale Price|52% Off
Original Vintage Chinese Propanda Poster, Lessons from Dazhai, 1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Lessons from Dazhai". Bright, vivid colors. Framed with a black, metal frame and acrylic. Not a Chinese export poster. Produced...
Acrylic, Paper
Allan D'Arcangelo Heal The Earth Poster Earth Day 1970
By Allan D'Arcangelo 1
Located in New Windsor, NY
Graphic "Heal The Earth" poster by Allan D'Arcangelo celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970. Many famous artists contributed their time and artistic efforts to make the inaugural Ea...
Paper
Classic Erik Bruun Finnair Vintage Travel Poster, 1958
By Erik Bruun
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A Classic vintage Finnair travel poster circa 1958 by Erik Bruun, a noted Finnish graphic designer. Erik Bruun (born 1926 in Viipuri) is a Finnish graphic designer. Bruun spent h...
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Teppaz AmplifIcateurs Electrophones, Alain Gauthier 1960
By Alain Gauthier
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original Vintage Poster Teppaz AmplifIcateurs Electrophones, Alain Gauthier 1960 This particular record came player came out in 1960, it was advertised as a portable record player f...
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster America Sabena Belgian Airlines
By Gaston van den Eynde
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - nach Amerika Sabena Belgische Fluglinien / America by Sabena Belgian Airlines featuring a colourful stylised image of a plane flying over...
Paper
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
Original Vintage Poster by Cieslewicz, Circa 1970 'REPORTERS'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage poster by Cieslewicz, Circa 1970 'REPORTERS' "Cieslewicz's art merges a number of intellectual and emotional threads through close relationships between words an...
Paper, Linen
Marcel Duchamp Signed Lithograph 1963 Armory Exhibition Abstract Art Mid Century
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marcel Duchamp Signed Offset Lithograph, circa 1963. It is signed, dated, and numbered to lower right ‘Marcel Duchamp 1963 76/200’. This work is number 76 from the edition of 200 cr...
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Rhodesia Africa World Ploughing Contest 1968
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the 15th World Ploughing Contest held in Rhodesia 1968 (Zimbabwe Africa) on the 26 and 27 April featuring a stunning midcentury design depicti...
Paper
Original Framed Paper Movie Poster for Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A framed movie poster for the re-release of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles. The poster was folded, at one point, and some folds are...
Wood, Paper
Original Vintage Summer Travel Poster Belgium The Ardennes Midcentury Modern
Located in London, GB
Original vintage summer travel poster - Belgium The Ardennes - featuring a scenic view of the rolling green hills with a bridge over a winding river passing trees, fields and dramati...
Paper
$316Sale Price|20% Off
1970s Original Charles Camoin Seascape Art Exhibiton Poster
By Charles Camoin
Located in Miami, FL
Original vintage poster from an exhibit of French painter, Charles Camoin, vivid orange color with beige highlights. Charles Camoin (French: 23 September 1879-20 May 1965) was a F...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Kuwait MEA Middle East Airlines Auriac
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Kuwait MEA Middle East Airlines featuring a colourful mid-century design by Jacques Auriac (1922-2003) showing a sailing boat on blue water wi...
Paper
Rare Original Vintage Winter Ski Poster Scotland For Skiing Scottish Highlands
Located in London, GB
Rare original vintage ski poster advertising Scotland for Ski-ing promoting winter sports in the Scottish Highlands featuring a great mid-century design depicting a stylish couple in...
Paper
$475Sale Price|30% Off
Original French Cubist Art Exhibition Poster from Galerie Drouant Paris France
Located in Miami, FL
A true mid-century modern masterpiece, it is bursting with bold colors that bring an energetic, artistic flair to any space.
Paper
Original Mexico 68 Poster Printed by Industria y Comercio, circa 1968
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
An emblematic piece of mid-century Mexican graphic design, ideal for collectors, interiors, and collections focused on art, visual culture, and international Olympic design history.
Paper
Alberto Giacometti Exhibition Galerie Maeght Poster 1951 in Silver Frame
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) Exhibition poster from his 1951 signed in Plate - in good condition with some faint creasing. The poster is a fine representation of the artist. Fr...
Metal
Original Vintage Poster Industrial Agricultural Equipment Vouchers Castel France
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for Industrial and Agricultural Equipment Vouchers / Bons d'Equipement Industriel et Agricole featuring a great graphic design by Raoul Eric Castel (1915-1997...
Paper
Herve Morvan, Original Vintage Poster, Bendix, Fun Kitchen, 1960
By Hervé Morvan
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Herve Morvan-Bendix-Alufroid-Frigo, 1960 Hervé Morvan trained at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris where he learned to master mural art, fresco and...
Paper
Vintage Framed Marilyn Monroe Film Poster ‘Let’s Make Love’
Located in London, GB
A wonderful and very rare original vintage framed Marilyn Monroe film poster ‘Let’s Make Love’. This dates from 1960, it features artwork by British designer Tom Chantrell, and it is...
Paper
$950Sale Price|67% Off
Original Vintage Chinese Propanda Poster, Go Among the Workers..., 1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT To reduce shipping cost, this will be shipped unframed. An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster with "Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers and into the thick of...
Acrylic, Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Books For Your Holidays Livres Fix Masseau
By Pierre Fix-Masseau
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster in French - Pour vos vacances ... des livres / For your holidays ... books - featuring a fun mid-century illustration by the notable French graphi...
Paper
Original Poster-Kiraz-Canderel-Rage-Desespoir-Parisiennes, c.1990
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Poster-Kiraz-Canderel-Rage-Desespoir-Parisiennes, c.1990 Poster Advertiser for the Canderel brand, it sees a woman screaming "Rage. - Drawn up. - Overload Weight Additiona...
Paper
Original Poster-Edmond Kiraz-Canderel -The Nudist-Parisiennes, 1995
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Poster-Edmond Kiraz-Canderel -The Nudist-Parisiennes, 1995 Poster Advertising for the Canderel brand, we see a young woman Nudist on the beach, as well as the phrase "ah, i...
Paper
Vintage "Genetics Fruit Fly Drosophila" Wall Chart Poster, 1941
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage "Genetics Fruit Fly Drosophila" Wall Chart Poster, 1941 By the New York Scientific Supply Company, NY, NY "this chart will look amazing once properly framed" image with no ...
Hardwood, Paper
Original Vintage Africa Travel Poster Come To Dahomey Benin Midcentury Modern
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Dahomey (now Benin) in West Africa featuring a mid-century modern design depicting a montage of six illustrations on colourful backgrounds that cap...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Swissair Hans Looser Swiss Midcentury
By Hans Looser
Located in London, GB
Original vintage mid-century travel advertising poster for Swissair featuring a colourful painting by the renowned graphic artist Hans Looser (1919-1988) depicting a smiling lady wea...
Paper
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Add a welcome personal touch to your space and tie your distinctive interior scheme together by introducing antique and vintage posters to any and every room of your home.
In the late 19th century, following the advent of text-heavy posters printed from woodblocks for use in taverns and shop windows, hand-drawn poster art had become commonplace in regions such as France, England and the United States. Well-known illustrators were commissioned to produce decorative posters to advertise political campaigns, theatrical events, books, household goods and other items. Early poster artists used a printmaking technique called lithography, which sees drawings or paintings created on a stone (or metal) surface with an oil-based substance, such as a greasy crayon or tusche (an oily wash). The image is eventually affixed to the surface by means of a chemical reaction, and ink adheres to certain sections of the surface while non–image areas are made to repel the ink.
If you wanted a color lithograph in the early days, the number of stones prepared had to match the number of colors you commissioned for the poster. French painter Jules Chéret, widely known as the father of the modern poster, designed some of history's most popular lithographic posters that featured color. Today, Chéret’s art is highly collectible, along with original works by Czech painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha, whose posters advertising theatrical productions helped define Art Nouveau.
Over time, poster artists transitioned to more advanced techniques. Using silkscreens, woodblocks and photolithography, painters and illustrators printed larger quantities at a faster rate.
If you’ve finally tracked down that vintage movie poster, mid-century modern promotional travel poster or other work and you’re looking to find out if it is valuable, distinguishing between an original poster and a reproduction can be complicated. A professional appraiser can work with you on factors such as rarity, assessing the physical condition of your poster and authenticating your piece. For now, take care of your new acquisition because conserving posters is essential in helping them retain their value. A practical conservation method is to have the work mounted on archival, acid-free paper and thin artist’s canvas, then enclosing it in a sturdy frame. (And here is a primer on how to hang wall art, be it arranged gallery-style or otherwise.)
On 1stDibs, find all kinds of posters for your home today.