$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
$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 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 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
$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 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
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
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
Large Mid-Century Modern Milano Italy Female Bust Lithograph Wall Art
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Large Mid-Century Modern "Milano 70/70" unsigned offset lithograph featuring a portrait of a floral adorned female bust. Framed behind clear Plexiglas in a silver metal frame with wo...
Metal
$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
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
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 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-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
Original Vintage Airline Travel Poster Africa Zebra Fly TWA David Klein
By David Klein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage mid-century airline travel poster for Africa Fly TWA Trans World Airlines up up and away TWA featuring a colourful iconic design by the notable American artist David...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Panama Braniff International Airways Fishing
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Latin America travel poster for Panama issued by Braniff International Airways featuring a fun image of a smiling man in a red and white top standing with a swordfis...
Paper
Original Vintage Swiss Winter Sport Ski Poster Switzerland Jungfrau Region
By Ed Weber
Located in London, GB
Original vintage mid-century winter sport and ski poster for the Jungfrau Region in Switzerland / Svizzera Regione della Jungfrau featuring a bright and colourful midcentury design b...
Paper
Big old advertising poster stove heating Super Norma - around 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1960s - original poster, no reproduction - suitable for framing - few damages,see the photos - Printed in: V. Neubert a Synove, Prague-XVI
Paper
Larry Clark Signed Gallery Exhibition Offset Lithograph Posters
By Larry Clark
Located in Atlanta, GA
Larry Clark Gallery exhibition offset lithograph posters, American, circa 1996. The poster on the left is signed by the artist. They are from the famed photographer, filmmaker, and a...
Glass, Wood, Paper
$860Sale Price|20% Off
Original French Abstract Art Exhibition Poster for Parisian Galerie Pierre Domec
Located in Miami, FL
Original mid century modern abstract art exhibition poster from Galerie Pierre Domec in Paris, France.
Paper
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
Jim Dine Signed National Galerie Berlin Lithograph Poster 1971
By Jim Dine
Located in Chicago, IL
Framed and signed, after Jim Dine, lithograph show poster for National Galerie Berlin show 1971. On Arches paper. Even, aged toning to paper, clear signature, metal frame.
Paper
Vasarely Exhibition Poster, L'Art Vivant 1965-1968, Modern, France
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Victor Vasarely Exhibition poster, L'Art Vivant 1965-1968. Poster was created for an exhibition held at the Fondation maeght in Saint-Paul, France, from April 13th-June 30, 1968. L...
Paper
$536Sale Price|20% Off
1963, 'La Revolution' Marc Chagall Original French Exhibition Poster
By Marc Chagall
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
1963, 'La Revolution' MARC CHAGALL original exhibition poster. This poster is in good condition, the poster is consistent with age, the colours are vibrant. ARTIST Marc Chag...
Paper
'Easy Rider' Original Vintage Movie Poster, American, 1969
Located in Devon, GB
A touchstone of the American counterculture movement, Dennis Hopper's 1969 revolutionary road drama 'Easy Rider' defined a generation of disillusioned youth, marking a turning point ...
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Equus Visual Interpretations Tom Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Equus: Visual interpretations by students of the London College of Printing an exhibition of souvenir brochures interpreting Peter Schaffer's ...
Paper
$400Sale Price / item|56% Off
Original Italian Advertising Poster 1951 for wool and ceramics . Vicenza, Italy
Located in Rhinebeck, NY
PUBBLISTELLA Mostra laniera e della ceramica. Vicenza Original vintage poster Printer: Arti grafiche delle Venezie, Vicenza Printing technique: colour offset on paper Size: cm 100 x ...
Paper
Steve McQueen 'Bullitt' Original Vintage Movie Poster, Japanese, 1968
Located in Devon, GB
In one of his most famous roles at the pinnacle of his career, Steve McQueen is the essence of cool as tough cop Frank Bullitt in this action-packed 1968 thriller, featuring one of m...
Paper
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
Art Deco Original Australian Vintage Poster, 'MARYSVILLE' Victorian Railways
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
This original poster was created to promote tourism to the Australian town of Marysville. At that time, the main mode of transportation was via train. Much later, as people began to ...
Paper, Linen
Original Vintage Poster, Chambord Chateaux de Loire, Renaissance, Castle, 1950
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Poster commissioned by the French government to promote tourism to the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, particularly Chambord. Artist: Anonym Title: Chambord - Les Chateaux de la Loir...
Paper
'Gilda' Original Vintage Argentinian One Sheet Movie Poster, 1946
Located in Devon, GB
Printed in stunning stone lithography, this extremely rare Argentinian one-sheet poster for quintessential film noir 'Gilda' features similar show-stopping artwork to the coveted US ...
Paper, Linen
Huge Original Maxime 1958 French Movie Poster by René Péron
By Rene Peron
Located in West Chester, PA
Original 1958 French movie poster by Rene Peron for the film Maxime directed by Henri Verneuil strarring Michèle Morgan and Charles Boyer. Large scale statement piece adds a nice pop...
Paper
Vintage Original Georges Braque Exhibition Poster 3 Birds Gallery Maeght Zurich
By Georges Braque
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Vintage Georges Braque graphic art, exhibition lithograph poster, entitled "Les Trois Oiseaux en Vol" ("The Three Birds in Flight"), a lithograph, created by the artist in 1961. Th...
Paper
"MARILYN" poster based on a design by Andy Warhol, Italy 1990
Located in Naples, IT
Color screen print on paper, based on an advertising photograph from the 1953 film "Niagara" in which Monroe starred. The image shows a portrait of Marilyn Monroe made with the silks...
Paper
1967 Bill Graham Fillmore Concert Poster — B.B. King, Steve Miller Band
Located in San Diego, CA
Original 1967 Fillmore Auditorium concert poster, designed by John H. Myers and presented in San Francisco by legendary promoter Bill Graham. This striking example of San Francisco p...
Paper
Bellenger, Original Poster, SUD Beverage, Sparkling Water, Bottle Opener, 1950
By Jacques-Pierre Bellenger
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This is a promotional poster for the soft drink brand SUD, created by the Bellenger brothers around 1950. Artist: Bellenger Jacques et Pierre Title : Sud Date: circa 1950 Size: 47....
Paper
Vintage Psychedelic Sunburst / Tie-Dye Poster, San Diego, CA., c. 1969
By Rick Griffin, Peter Max, Victor Moscoso
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Psychedelic Sunburst / Tie-Dye / Blacklight "Art" Lithograph Poster attributed to artist V.H. McCully for Synthetic Trips San Diego, CA., c. 1969 " in good vintage condition...
Paper
1976 Montreal Olympic Games - Marcia Marcus Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
American painter Marcia Marcus was one of several artist commissioned to create fine art posters in promotion of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games. The games, the first and only...
Paper
$2,560Sale Price / item|20% Off
Original Vintage French Advertising Poster, Verigoud by Savignac, 1955
By Hervé Morvan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French advertising poster, VERIGOUD by Savignac, 1955 This is an original poster, linen backed for preservation. This poster is advertising a fruit drink for chi...
Linen, Paper
Original Vintage Kitchen Poster, Butane Propane Gas, c.1950
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Vox-Btagaic-Butane-Propane-Gas, c.1950 Additional Details: Materials and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper Size: 31.5 x 47.2 in / 80 x 120 cm Printe...
Paper
$520Sale Price|20% Off
Art & Exhibition Original Vintage Poster, Camille Bryen 'OPNI' 1975
By Camille Bryen
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Art & Exhibition original vintage poster, Camille Bryen 'OPNI' 1975 This is an original exhibition poster, the overall condition is good although the poster has a small rip on the...
Paper
Marc Chagall, Paris 1969, "La Bible" Exhibition Poster Framed
Located in Marbella, ES
Framed exhibition poster of Russian born French modernist artist Marc Chagall, who was commissioned in 1931 to illustrate the New Testament and used it as an excuse to visit Holy Lan...
Paper
Bollinger, Original Vintage Poster, Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, Abbay, 1950
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Poster commissioned by the French government to promote tourism in France, particularly to Mont Saint Michel. Artist: Bollinger A. photograph Title: Le Mont Saint Michel – France D...
Paper
$932Sale Price|20% Off
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Olympic Munich Games 1972, Original Poster
By Hundertwasser
Located in Praha, CZ
- rare - marked - original - can be framed and glazed.
Paper
James Bond 'Goldfinger' Original Vintage Film Poster, Swedish, 1965
By Gosta Aberg
Located in Devon, GB
Considered the quintessential and definitive Bond film, the third instalment in EON Productions' James Bond series set the template for many of the subsequent films, with its tongue ...
Linen, Paper
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
Massive After Andy Warhol "Torso" Poster Ace Gallery Paris, 1977
By Andy Warhol
Located in San Diego, CA
Massive After Andy Warhol "Torso" poster, circa 1977. The poster is in good vintage condition and measures 39.38"W x 59.13"H (Image size: 35.5" x 26.88"). Printed by SMI (Société Mon...
Metal
"Dublin Horse Show" Pan American Vintage Poster by Olive Whitmore, 1954
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is an original vintage travel poster issued by Pan American World Airways in 1954, promoting Dublin, Ireland as one of the airline’s premier international destinations. The p...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Paris SNCF Nathan Notre Dame Nathan Garamond
By Jacques Nathan-Garamond
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Paris featuring a colourful midcentury design by the renowned French graphic artist Jacques Nathan-Garamond (1910-2001) depicting people and cars o...
Paper
$544Sale Price / item|20% Off
SALE David Hockney Park Hotel Munich Orig Exhibition Lithograph Poster Denmark
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
David Hockney Park Hotel Munich Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster Denmark 1972 David Hockney Original Exhibition Lithograph Poster entitled Park Hotel Munich published by the L...
Paper
$520Sale Price|20% Off
Pierre Graziani Original Vintage Exhibition Poster, Musee Galliera, 1977
By Pierre Alexandre Graziani
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pierre Graziani original vintage exhibition poster, Musee Galliera, 1977 Pierre Alexandre Graziani is a French Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1932. There are some ...
Paper
Henri Matisse Galerie Maeght “Ce Dessin Me Plaît” Exhibition Poster, Paris, 1945
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Atlanta, GA
Extremely rare Henri Matisse Galerie Maeght “Ce Dessin Me Plaît” Exhibition Poster, Paris, 1945 This rare Galerie Maeght exhibition poster reproduces Henri Matisse’s emblematic line...
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
$995Sale Price|23% Off
Original Restored Lithograph SNCF French Rail Travel Poster, Languedoc c.1956
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Original restored SNCF French lithograph rail travel poster and linen backed. CREATOR Artist: Jean Jules Louis Cavailles (1901 - 1977). Printer: Perceval, Paris. DAT...
Linen, 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.