About Coffee Posters
A small archive-led shop curating public-domain coffee visuals. Belle Époque advertising, 19th-century botanical plates, Ottoman café lithographs, plantation paintings, and domestic European genre work — all sourced from institutional archives, restored, and prepared for printing.
What we do
We find, restore, annotate, and sell print-ready public-domain coffee visuals. The underlying works are in public domain — we don’t own them and we don’t pretend to. What we sell is the curation, the restoration, the historical write-up, the print preparation, and the catalog framing that turns scattered institutional records into a coherent archive.
What we don’t do
We don’t invent stories about artists or workshops. We don’t romanticize colonial-era iconography. We don’t write “ritual” copy or “elevate your routine” lines. If a piece carries orientalist or labor-history weight, we name it; we don’t dress it up.
Where the material comes from
- Wellcome Collection (London)
- Wikimedia Commons · coffee categories
- Google Cultural Institute
- Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo
- Library of Congress, prints and photographs division
- New York Public Library digital collections
- Internet Archive book illustrations
- Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- Rijksmuseum, Smithsonian Open Access, Europeana
About the operator
Coffee Posters is run by Li Yuan and is a project of TimberFlare. TimberFlare’s main business is specialty-coffee adjacent and the customer overlap is direct. Coffee Posters is run as an independent property; the only crossover is editorial taste and email marketing.
Contact
Direct correspondence: hello@coffeeposters.com