Flying Around

 Oscar Rabe Hanson, 1926

Just back from a brief but wonderful trip to Barcelona,

I am getting ready to leave for a few days in Paris...

I love to travel, but wish I had my own wings 

instead of flying with Ryanair

 Battetti, 1930s

Lucien Boucher, 1948, thanks to Paul Malon

Charley Harper, 1951

Two 1950s posters for Braniff

Jacques Dubois, 1956

Jean Colin, 1958

Thanks to Sandi Vincent

via the Simmonds Collection

Pablo Picasso, 1963

Georges Mathieu, 1968

Wiktor Górka, 1968

Raymond Savignac

East Coast Frolics

Thanks to Paul Malon for letting me share these delightful posters

 I just discovered in his wonderful vintage poster set on flickr.

The series of six ads was created by Frank Newbould

in 1933 for the Londor and North Eastern Railway.

La Dame et le Chien

Georges Clairin, Sarah Bernardt, 1876

Last Friday I gave a lesson about the posters of the Belle Epoque,

which reminded me of how much I enjoy that period, and of how much 

lovely stuff I is hiding in my (by now really big) image archives.

So here's a sequel to a 2010 post, celebrating a time when 

the elegance of hounds and the fashion of ladies 

seemed to be made for each other

G.L. Sormani, 1900

Edward Penfield, 1908

Bernard Boutet de Monvel, 1912

Coles Phillips, 1915

Otto Poertzel, The Aristocrats, 1920s

Georges Barbier, 1922

Coleth

Jean Dupas, Woman with Stole, 1929

Art Deco postcard

 Louis Icart, Femme aux Levriers, 1929

Jean-Gabriel Domergue, Woman with Greyhounds, 1930

Erté, Symphony in Black

Put Your Nose in a Book

Mai Miturich

In case you wonder where I was... having been recently diagnosed with a congenitally deviated nasal septum, 

last week I went to the hospital to undergo surgery. Now I am starting to feel good, but a mandatory rest period

 hasn't allowed me to make my costumary pilgrimage to the Bologna Book Fair. Yes, that sucks!

This quick post is dedicated with love to all the friends, colleagues and artists who were there 

and to all illustrated book lovers, be they children, adults, or beasts

Gerard Douwe, 1960

Sac Magique

Gaia Stella

Hugo Horita

Two works by Ester Garcia Cortes

Ayano Imai, thanks to Shelley Davies

Richard Scarry, from The Golden Book of 365 Stories, 1955,

thanks to Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

Princesse Camcam

Zack Rock

Marco Somà

Edward Gorey

Charles van Sandwyk

Catia Chen

I really hope to be there next year!

Mad Men and Crazy Critters - Wool & Yarn

 Vintage Japanese ad, 1950, 
thanks to a wonderful post on 50 Watts

 Nicco Carlo, 1925

Alois Carigiet, 1937-39

 Marcello Dudovich


Willi Weiss, 1952

 Hans Aeschbach, 1955

Vintage Japanese poster

Italian ad for mothproofed wool, 1946 

 Raymond Savignac, 1952

 Vintage Japanese ad, 1950, 
thanks to another wonderful post at 50 Watts!

Kenji Itoh, 1954

 Gene Federico & Naiad Einsel