Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Advertising Poster - Early 20th Century Medicine Sign
Located in Seattle, WA
Offered here is an advertising poster for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, a popular patent medicine from the late 19th and early 20th century.The bold design features a bright yellow bac...
Paper
$396Sale Price|20% Off
Original French Abstract Art Exhibition Poster, French Poster Paris France
Located in Miami, FL
This vibrant poster, promoting an exhibition of A. Leve's work, is a captivating piece of mid-century graphic design.
Paper
$200Sale Price|20% Off
Fernand Leger Exhibition Poster
By (after) Fernand Léger
Located in Pasadena, TX
This poster is from the 1956 exhibition. The colors are vibrant and its in it's original from which is period.
Paper
(2) USSR Haute Cuisine Posters 1950-60 Caviar and Chocolate
Located in Pasadena, TX
This ad features 2 fine posters expressing the delicacies of the Russian palette after WW2. This HAUTE CUISINE features a poster on Caviar and Chocolate . These were delicacies of th...
Paper
(2) USSR Haute Cuisine Posters 1950-60 Caviar and Chocolate
Located in Pasadena, TX
This ad features fine posters expressing the delicacies of the Russian palette after WW2. This HAUTE CUISINE features a poster on Caviar and Chocolate. These were delicacies of the ...
Paper
$760Sale Price|20% Off
"Nebe Bez Lasky" Film Poster 1961 Original Vintage Poster
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
"Nebe Bez Lasky" film poster 1961 original vintage poster This film poster from 1961 is a beautiful amalgamation of collage and photography. This poster is in excellent condition ...
Paper
$2,398Sale Price|20% Off
Original Vintage Swiss Travel Poster for Central Switzerland
Located in Reading, Berkshire
"Central Switzerland - Anytime Holiday Time" An Exquisite Swiss Travel Colour Photo Lithograph Poster Print from the 1960's Dimensions 102 x 64 cm
Paper
Original Mexico 68 Poster – Gymnastics
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
A representative piece from the extraordinary graphic program created for the XIX Olympiad, ideal for collectors of modern design, Olympic memorabilia, and mid-century Mexican graphi...
Paper
Original Mexico 68 Poster – Diving
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
A representative piece of the Mexico 68 graphic legacy, ideal for collectors of design, Olympic memorabilia, and mid-century modern graphic art.
Paper
$1,362Sale Price|20% Off
WW1 ‘Oh Les Aura!' French Poster by Jules-Abel Faivre, Mid 1980s
By Jules-Abel Faivre
Located in Faversham, GB
Oh Les Aura! 2e emprunt de la défense nationale – Souscrivez Eng – “We’ll get them! 2nd national defence loan. Printed 1916 by Devambez, Paris, and signed in the print. The most famo...
Linen, Paper
Rare Charles Eames Herman Miller "Design of the Century" Advertising Poster
By Herman Miller
Located in South Bend, IN
An extremely rare Charles Eames "Design of the Century" advertising poster By Herman Miller USA, circa 1999 Measures: 25.13"W x 0.75"D x 37.13"H. Excellent condition.
Oak, Paper
$824Sale Price|20% Off
Yves Brayer Original Art Exhibition Poster Egypt & the Nile, Mourlot Art Poster
By Mourlot, Yves Brayer
Located in Miami, FL
Embark on a visual journey down the Nile with this original art exhibition color poster by renowned artist Yves Brayer. This captivating artwork vividly captures the allure of an Egy...
Paper
Jungle Cat Disney Movie Poster on Linen 7ft 1960
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Giant Disney movie poster printed on linen canvas measuring 7 ft. square. Walt Disney production distributed by Buena Vista with stamp, circa 1960. Amazing vivid color given age and ...
Canvas, Linen
Max "The Birdman" Ernst, psychedelic poster, Martin Sharp, Big O Posters, 1967
By Martin Sharp
Located in London, Fitzrovia
An original famous psychedelic surrealistic Martin Sharp colour lithograph and silkscreen poster on metallic foil card, created as a homage to the artist Max Ernst. Lettered with ti...
Paper
Vintage French Can Can Poster
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Capture the whimsical spirit of the Belle Époque with this charming vintage "Le Frou-Frou" poster. Originally illustrated by the famed artist Weiluc (Lucien-Henri Weil) for the iconi...
Glass, Wood, Paper
'Eye' Poster Dress by Harry Gordon, Poster Dresses Ltd. London, England
Located in London, GB
1st edition 1968. 'Poster Dress - Eye', a disposable paper dress screen printed tissue, wood pulp and rayon mesh, with internal 'Poster Dresses' label, in the original packaging, wit...
Paper
$808Sale Price|20% Off
Libra Funky Features poster 1967
Located in Pasadena, TX
VINTAGE POSTER "Libra" Sausalito 1967 Funky Features Iconic Astrology
Paper
Vintage VW Beetle Mylar Corporate Poster
Located in Cincinnati, OH
" Does The Stick Shift Scare Your Wife? " A large mylar poster advertising the 1966 or 1967 VW beetle and having for its time a pretty bold connotation about a stick shift. Designed ...
Mylar
Original Mexico 68 Olympic Games Poster
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
A representative work of the Mexico 68 graphic legacy and the rise of modern Mexican design, ideal for collectors of Olympic memorabilia, graphic design, and mid-century visual art.
Paper
Jean Dubuffet, Galerie Beyeler Poster
Located in Dallas, TX
Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901-1985), 1985, poster on paper advertising a retrospective at Galerie Beyeler, 31 1/4" x 23 1/4" sight size, 31 3/4" x 23 3/4" framed.
Paper
Minnie Mouse framed poster, France 1960s
Located in Firenze, IT
Minnie Mouse framed poster France 1960s 121 x 80 cm framed Conditions: good consistent with age and use. Small defects on the wooden frame.
Wood
Galerie Maeght Calder Poster "Stabiles"
By Galerie Maeght, Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Galerie Maeght Calder poster, "Stabiles" one of a collection we are offering on 1st dibs.
Paper
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Physics Educational Diagram
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Physics instructional educational diagram, chart or poster.
Paper
Original México 68 Poster – Field Hockey
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Printed by Industria y Comercio and Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad, circa 1968. We offer this Original México 68 Olympic poster representing the discipline of ...
Paper
"Too Late for Tears" Movie Poster
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Too Late for Tears! 1949 Movie Poster. Have been told its not a bad movie! Definitely defines a period! Poster is not perfect, I show wear spots in photos.
Paper
Vintage Psychedelic Poster "Time Warp", Ohio, 1970
By Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Peter Max
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Psychedelic Poster "Time Warp", Ohio, 1970 Pro Arts Inc. Medina, Ohio, USA "Pro Arts (1967–1984) was a poster company founded in Ohio, United States that would create the ...
Paper
Pablo Picasso Exposition Vallauris Poster 1961
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vallauris Exposition Poster Picasso 1961 attributed printer and publisher Hidalgo Arnéra white matte 20 h x 16 w Art 12 h 9.5 h Preowned original vintage Refer to listed images
Paper
$225 / item
1970s Muurame Furniture Promotional Poster
By Marimekko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A striking promotional piece from a line of posters sent to distributors, press, and agents by Finnish furniture maker Muurame, a Scandinavian Modern design cousin of Marimekko, Arte...
Paper
$455Sale Price|20% Off
1940s Original Poster, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- good original condition - framed has added been afterwards
Glass, Wood, Paper
Salvador Dali Midcentury Art Exhibition Poster, 1975
Located in Miami, FL
Original midcentury art exhibition poster of Salvador Dali’s work. This poster shows the master's interesting depiction of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers. Exhibit was held in...
Paper
1964 Goldfinger Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
Released in 1964, "Goldfinger" is the third outing of Sean Connery as James Bond. One of the absolutely quintessential Bond films, and one of the most iconic movies of all time, the ...
Linen, Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2018
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2018 poster. Fabienne Verdier was commissioned to create the poster for the 2018 tournament. She is the fourth woman – and first ever French artist –...
Paper
Original Bob Dylan Poster by Milton Glaser
By Milton Glaser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Milton Glasser Designed Bob Dylan Poster. Nice condition showing pin holes in all 4 corners. Overall in nice original condition! Shows signs of original fold lines from when it wa...
Paper
Vassily Kandinsky Galerie Maeght Exhibition Poster, 1965
By Galerie Maeght, (after) Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vassily Kandinsky Galerie Maeght Exhibition Poster Paris, France, 1965 unframed nice vintage condition some waviness - see images
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2014
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2014 poster In 2014, Juan Uslé was commissioned to design the official Roland Garros poster, bringing his unique abstract style to the French Open. H...
Paper
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Medical Educational Diagram
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Swedish Mid-Century Medical Educational Diagram
Paper
Alfred Manessier, Mourlot Lithograph 1959 Poster
Located in Sharon, CT
Important Historic Document, the Mourlot Lithograph Poster announcing Alfred Manessier's 1959 show at Galerie Nicolas Rauch.
Paper
India 1957 Travel Advertising Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
The design uses a highly decorative, almost architectural composition, with stylised monuments, strong blocks of colour and a bold black background that gives the image real clarity ...
Linen, Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2019
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2019 poster. The 2019 Roland Garros poster by José María Sicilia is an abstract and delicate piece that captures the fleeting beauty of the French Op...
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2010
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2010 poster. Excellent condition, the butterflies featured on this poster are raised and glittery. Condition Good Format Unlinen backed, thick pa...
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 1995
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 1995 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Donald Lipski Year 1995
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2000
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2000 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Sean Scully Year 2001
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 1998
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 1998 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Hervé Télémaque Year 1998
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2001
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2001 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Sean Scully Year 2001
Paper
$198Sale Price|89% Off
Aquarius Poster Zodiac star sign 1968
Located in Pasadena, TX
1968 Aquarius Poster, Zodiac Astrology Star Sign, by Terre, Funky Features, San Francisco, Psychedelic, Hippy New Age, wall art decor
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2017
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2017 poster. Excellent condition. Condition Good Format Unlinen backed, thick paper Dimensions 71 x 53cm Year 2017 Artist Nalini Malani
Paper
1968 Barbarella Original Vintage Poster
Located in Winchester, GB
"Barbarella" is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, based on the French comic series of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest. The film stars Jane Fonda as the title c...
Paper
$1,738Sale Price|20% Off
Plombieres Les Bains Vintage Poster
By Adrien Sénéchal
Located in Faversham, GB
A travel poster advertising the hot springs and baths in the spa town of Plombieres, Eastern France. The artist Adrien Senechal uses deep, rich colours in his work for the French ra...
Glass, Paper
Picasso Museum Barcelona pfotolithographic Poster 1966
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
This unique photo litho graphic poster was made for the opening of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 1966. This poster is one of the 5000 made. The poster was made by La Poligrafa...
Paper
Psychedelic 1967 Poster by Nancy Conner
By Victor Moscoso
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A colorful and bright vintage psychedelic poster declaring " Love Is Where It's At " picturing a imp floating in the air . Designed by Nancy Conner NYC and published in 1967 by Gary...
Paper
Vintage Swedish Engineering Chart Poster
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Swedish engineering instructional diagram chart or poster. Unframed. String hanger. Highly collectible ephemera from 1950's Sweden.
Paper
1969 Disneyland - Tomorrowland 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 - Fantasyland 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
Vintage Boho Germaine Kerman Marquee Poster
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The deep red and black tones set a dramatic contrast, while the flowing figure of Germaine Kerjean exudes confidence and grace, making this poster a perfect focal point for any space...
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 2006
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 2006 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Günther Förg Year 2006
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 1997
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 1997 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Antonio Saura Year 1997
Paper
Official Original Roland Garros Tennis Poster, 1996
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Official Original Roland Garros 1996 poster Condition Good Format Unlinen backed Dimensions 71 x 53 cm Artist Jean-Michel Meurice Year 1996
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.