I have a deep love for vintage prints and books, and I was thinking that some of them need to be shared with the world.
This is a plate I picked up this past weekend at a Vintage Paper show here in San Francisco. It’s an odd piece, according to the label it’s some kind of plan or schematic for decorations on a piece of furniture. I love the birds and the mice, but it’s the little Xs marked on the drawing that really make it for me. You’ll sometimes see that used to denote areas of a print that are to be filled in with black, but I don’t know if they serve the same purpose here. Anyone know?
Details:
This print is from a loosebound collection called “Documents d’Atelier Art Décoratif Moderne”, published in 1898. The only clue as to who the artist might be is the ‘Th. Lambert’. Which may not even be a name!
I’m going to try to make a weekly feature of posting scans of some of the vintage peices I’ve collected. Just need to come up with a snappy name for it…