A direct case for using real institutional archival material on specialty cafe interiors, instead of the mass-produced ‘vintage coffee print’ template that fills Etsy and Amazon.
Henri Privat-Livemont and the Brussels print culture, 1895–1910
A short biography of the Belgian designer behind the canonical coffee Rajah, and the small Brussels print circle that produced most of the era’s coffee, chocolate, and tobacco posters.
How to hang a Belle Époque coffee poster: paper, mat, frame
A short, opinionated guide to printing and framing a Belle Époque coffee poster so it reads the way it was designed to read.
A short visual history of European coffee posters, 1885–1920
The thirty-five-year window from 1885 to 1920 produced almost every coffee poster anyone now thinks of as a ‘vintage coffee poster.’ This is the visual map of why.
Two Rajahs: Privat-Livemont and Meunier in Brussels, 1897–1899
Two Belgian Art Nouveau posters share the name Rajah and belong to the same brand, but were designed two years apart by different artists. Both belong in this archive.