Two 50s posters by Henri Ott

From "Rare and Important Travel Posters" auction from Swann Galleries, New York, 2013

HENRI OTT (1919-?) SWISSAIR / BY SWISSAIR TO THE UNITED STATES / DOUGLAS DC - 6B. Circa 1952.

HENRI OTT (1919-?) SWISSAIR / BY SWISSAIR TO THE UNITED STATES / DOUGLAS DC - 6B. Circa 1952.

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Two gorgeous ski posters

Roger Broders (1883-1953) Sports d'Hiver. Circa 1929. This one sold at auction for $10,000.

Designer Unknown. LES DIABLERETS / SUISSE. Circa 1930. This sold at auction for $6000.

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Holiday movies you may have forgotten about

These are some less obvious holiday films that I will be watching between now and New Year's Eve.

The Apartment (1960) with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. This sardonic, sometimes dark but ultimately heart-warming film takes place over Christmas and New Year's. Wintery Manhattan in wide-screen black & white at the dawn of the 1960's.

Bachelor Mother (1939) also takes place over the Christmas Holidays, beginning in the toy department of a department store on Christmas Eve --- just before Ginger Rogers receives her pink slip and finds herself mistaken for the mother of an abandone… — Bachelor Mother (1939) also takes place over the Christmas Holidays, beginning in the toy department of a department store on Christmas Eve --- just before Ginger Rogers receives her pink slip and finds herself mistaken for the mother of an abandoned baby. Again, plenty of snowy New York scenes. Funny and full of charm.

If you like starry-eyed nuns who believe they can get cynical rich guys to donate expensive land to charitable causes while speeding around in jeeps and competing in tennis matches (and lots of snowy scenes of Connecticut hillside locales) then Come… — If you like starry-eyed nuns who believe they can get cynical rich guys to donate expensive land to charitable causes while speeding around in jeeps and competing in tennis matches (and lots of snowy scenes of Connecticut hillside locales) then Come to the Stable (1949) might be right up your alley.

Cor van Velsen

Cornelius van Velsen (Dutch 1921-1910) designed 170 posters as well as LP covers and illustrated children's books. During WW2, he forged identity cards for the resistance.

Tentoonstelling Interieur Mode Exterieur. Time. Hilversum Goois scheppend ambacht 1958

Bloemen met Pasen 1953

unica 1950/54

1950-60 via

Marcello Dudovich

Prominent Italian poster designer 1878-1962. Here are two nice ones from the thirties.

Italy 1936 via

Venezia Lido. 1930 via flickr

Konsumerism run amok

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