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While the majority of posters and prints that we sell at L’Affichiste belong to me, we also sell posters on consignment. Selling on consignment essentially means that we act as the middleman between the actual owner of the poster and the client who ultimately purchases it, through us. This kind of arrangement works out well …
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I’ve written many times before about how my friend Marc Choko has introduced me to the joys of contemporary poster art, and artists. Before I met Marc I was a girl who was firmly stuck in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods: a woman clearly convinced that there were no modern poster artists (or …
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When I was a little girl I was fortunate enough to have been able to learn how to ride a horse. And I, like most little girls, fell in love for the first time. I am old enough to remember the excitement that surrounded one of the greatest athletes of the last century – equine …
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I have spent my first weeks as an intern of L’Affichiste in the drawers of its inventory. Each time I pull one open I find myself in a treasure trove of prints, posters and paper and the socio-historical, aesthetic past each one contains within its pulp and ink. The inventory list that started with zero …
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I have always felt that posters are documents of social and political history. With images and text, posters have the power to literally illustrate events and eras that are long-gone, and often quite forgotten. Shortly after I opened the gallery I was fortunate enough to have been left with a large number of consigned posters. …
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(Yes, only I would make the connection between those three things…) In March, when Giulian and I went to the Parma Fiera, we found and fell in love with these great old lithographs of mushrooms. Mushrooms with great long names like Trametes gibbosa and Lenzites quercina or Collybia dryophila and Collybia velutipes. Mushrooms that look …
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I’m pretty sure that in previous posts I have written a little bit about ‘gratefulness’ (my spell check is going crazy, but let’s just say if it isn’t a word, it should be). To me, being grateful means that I am aware of how fortunate I am, that I take a moment every now and …
