Vintage Posters

These posters,   advertisement calendar from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of colour lithography.

Thess advertisements depict a fashionable woman in traditional Chinese dress posing nd framed by an Art Deco border. 

The poster reflects the rise of Western-style advertising during the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, where the Art Deco movement brought from Europe greatly influenced local fashion, art and architecture. Today, this type of poster is prized by collectors and preserved in museum collections both for its artistry and for the unique glimpse it gives of the past.