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Six ways into the archive: by category, era, region, setting, colour, or gift bracket. Pick whichever matches how you’re thinking about the piece you want.
By category
Seven institutional categories — the structural axis the archive is organised on.
Posters & Advertising
Belle Époque, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco posters — the Continental commercial-print peak.
451 pieces
Café Scenes & Coffeehouses
Ottoman coffeehouses, Belle Époque Parisian cafés, Viennese kaffeehäuser, Cairo merchant scenes.
374 pieces
Botanical Plates
19th-century scientific illustration of Coffea arabica and related species.
24 pieces
Coffee Drinking
Domestic and salon genre painting — from rococo Paris to Impressionist Montmartre.
58 pieces
Plantation & Origin
Brazilian fazendas, Caribbean and Indonesian plantation views; coffee as global agricultural object.
40 pieces
Equipment & Tools
Grinders, ibriks, percolators, brewing devices, roasters in painting and engraving.
59 pieces
Cabaret & Ephemera
Belle Époque cabaret programs, brand trade cards, magazine illustration, postcards.
177 pieces
By era
From rococo Paris (1750s) to 1920s Art Deco. The chronological spine.
Belle Époque
Continental commercial print, 1885–1914.
414 pieces
Art Nouveau
The graphic movement at the bean — Brussels, Paris, Munich, 1890–1910.
24 pieces
Art Deco
1920s coffee design at its sharpest.
114 pieces
Romantic & Orientalist
European travel artists in Ottoman, Levantine, and North African coffeehouses, 1820–1880.
404 pieces
Rococo & 18th c.
The earliest pieces in the archive — Boucher, Bonnet, Chardin and the rococo salons.
56 pieces
Victorian & Edwardian
Domestic genre painting and trade ephemera, 1837–1910.
1 pieces
By region
Where the work was made or the scene depicted. Nine regional concentrations.
France
The deepest archive — rococo to Belle Époque to Art Deco.
353 pieces
Belgium
Brussels was the printing capital of Belle Époque coffee posters.
5 pieces
Netherlands
Dutch coffee trade, domestic genre, and the Rijksmuseum’s open-access program.
27 pieces
Brazil
São Paulo fazenda painting — Ferrigno, Norfini, late-19th c. academic tradition.
35 pieces
Britain
London coffeehouses and the Wellcome Collection’s holdings.
68 pieces
Germany & Austria
19th-c. domestic genre through Jugendstil and the Viennese Kaffeehaus.
47 pieces
Ottoman / Levant
The institutional origin of public coffee drinking — kahvehane, sufra, smoke and brass.
164 pieces
USA
American chromolithograph trade cards, Library of Congress coffee posters and stereographs.
387 pieces
Italy
Late-19th c. Ricordi commercial print, Italian Futurist coffee advertising.
By setting
Pick a piece for a specific kind of interior. Each setting page is hand-curated for that space.
Cafe back wall
Belle Époque posters anchored behind the espresso machine.
Roastery showroom
Botanicals + plantation paintings for a third-wave roastery.
Home espresso corner
Three intimate pieces for a Linea Mini or home barista setup.
Restaurant dining room
Orientalist and Belle Époque pieces sized for a busy dining floor.
Hotel lobby cafe
Large statement posters + global Belle Époque for hospitality lobbies.
By colour palette
Match an existing interior or pick a deliberate visual register.
Warm gold & amber
Belle Époque chromolithograph palette.
Deep green & forest
Botanicals + plantation greens.
Ivory, cream, sepia
Hand-coloured 19th c. travel and engraving.
Black & cream
High-contrast ink-heavy engraving + Art Deco.
Crimson & jewel
Red, magenta, jewel-toned blue — chromolithographic extremes.
By gift
Start with the main gift guide, someone specific, or a specific budget.
Gift guide hub
All recipient and budget routes in one page.
For the cafe owner
Posters and cabaret programs sized for a real interior.
For the home barista
Three small intimate pieces, domestic genre register.
For the designer
Art Nouveau + Art Deco — the canon.
For the coffee obsessive
Botanicals + plantation + Ottoman — the full supply chain.
Under $20
Single pieces — the $19 entry point.
$20–50 gift sets
Three-piece curated sets at $39–49.
$50–100 gift sets
Six-piece curated sets at $79.
$100+ wall kits
12-piece Wall Kit and bespoke Custom Curation.
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