Original Vintage Travel Poster, 'TWA Disney" c. 1955 by David Klein
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
These posters have become synonymous with that golden, mid-Century era of design.
Paper
Original Vintage Australian Qantas Travel Poster, c. 1959 "South Africa"
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the series on animals, commemorating Qantas’ inaugural round the world service in the 1950s. Qantas first issued this series as screen-prints in the 1950s, using a Constellation...
Paper
Original Chiapas, Mexicana Airlines Poster by Regina Raull
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
circa 1970. We offer this Original Chiapas, Mexicana Airlines Poster by Regina Raull. Regina Raull was a Spanish painter with residence in Mexico City. A native of Bilbao, Raull e...
Paper
$4,625Sale Price|20% Off
Huge Vintage Barbarella Movie Poster in White Frame
Located in Berlin, DE
Huge vintage Barbarella movie poster in white frame.
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Basel Hotel Touring Garni Ferdinand Schott
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Hotel Touring Garni in Basel Switzerland featuring a great mid-century modern design by the Swiss graphic artist Ferdinand Schott (1887-1964) depictin...
Paper
1969 Disneyland - Tom Sawyer Island - 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
1969 Disneyland - Adventure Thru Inner Space 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
$1,195Sale Price|38% Off
Big Brother & The Holding Company Concert Poster, Signed, San Francisco 1966
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Original concert poster. Headline Band: Big Brother & The Holding Company Second Band: Oxford Circle Third Band: Lee Michaels Venue: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, Ca. Mo...
Metal
$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
William Conlon, "Untitled", Poster, Annual Community Holiday Festival, 1985
By William Conlon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Poster for the 15th Annual Community Holiday Festival (1985), William Conion This massive, signed poster by American abstract artist William Conlon is an exceptional example of late...
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
'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
Original 1980s David Hockney Museum Exhibition Lithograph Poster Fiesta '88
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Original 1980s David Hockney Museum Exhibition Lithograph Poster "Fiesta '88 at the Bradford Festival Flowers, Apple & Pear on a Table", 1986 This gorgeous, vintage, vibrant, out-of...
Paper
Original Mexico 68 Poster, printed by Miguel Galas S.A.
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Original poster from the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, printed on paper and created within the iconic graphic universe developed for the Mexico 68 Olympic Games. The composition presents...
Paper
Vintage Poster Caricature of Niki Lauda, 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
In original condition No damages Sometimes scratches.
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Mexico 68 Poster, printed by Miguel Galas S.A.
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Original poster from the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968, printed on paper and created within the iconic graphic universe developed for the Mexico 68 Olympic Games. The composition presents...
Paper
Vintage RAI Sandokan Promotional Poster by Gemma Fiorentini & Michela Papadia
Located in Roma, IT
We are pleased to offer for sale a striking original graphic poster dating from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, created to promote the English-language broadcast of the iconic San...
Beech, Paper
Vintage 1967 Plymouth Rock 1620 Poster, Osborn/Woods New World Series.
Located in Seattle, WA
The paper has not been mounted or framed.An example of mid century educational graphic design, suitable for collectors of vintage posters, Americana, or modernist print work.
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
$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
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
"Washington/ Pennsylvania Railroad/ Go By Train" Vintage Travel Poster, 1949
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a vintage travel poster, printed for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in 1949. The poster depicts the iconic United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., illuminated at night, with ...
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
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
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
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Sabena Modern Africa Belgian Airlines
By Gaston van den Eynde
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - To Modern Africa issued by Sabena - featuring a colourful mid-century design by Gaston Vanden Eynde (1923-1983) depicting tall buildings ...
Paper
Rare Original set 14 Posters Air France By Georges Mathieu
By Georges Mathieu
Located in Brussels, BE
Exceptional series of 14 Air France posters by Georges Mathieu – 1967 Rare set of 14 original posters from the iconic Air France campaign created by Georges Mathieu in 1967. The co...
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
'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
Original Vintage South America Travel Poster Iguazu Falls Argentina Steamer
Located in London, GB
Original vintage South America travel poster for Iguazu Argentina featuring a red paddle boat steamer sailing on the Iguazu River with the smoke from the funnel forming the shape of ...
Paper
$295Sale Price|67% 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
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
$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
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
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
$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
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
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
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
$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
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
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
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
$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
$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
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
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
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
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
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
$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 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
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
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
Mid-Century Map of New York, Framed in Black Lacquered Wood
Located in Barcelona, ES
Mid-Century Map of New York, Framed in Black Lacquered Wood Beautiful mid-century printed map of New York, showcasing the city’s iconic grid and urban layout with vintage charm and ...
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
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
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.