Vintage style has become a very popular trend in modern design. And besides, unlike ultramodern styles, vintage will hardly lose its relevance even in a couple of decades. In order to give a vintage touch to the interior design, it’s not necessary to decorate all the room with antiques. Sometimes, it’s enough to add one piece of vintage furniture, a vintage poster or an old lamp to make the room look great.
Vintage posters are one of the easiest ways to add a touch of the past epochs to the décor. In order to afford such décor, it’s not necessary to decorate all the room in retro style. Vintage posters are well combined with modern furniture and design. In fact, now, such posters are considered beyond the time context and are separate works of art.
Of course, real retro posters are rare and are usually collectibles. You may even face some troubles in seeking for a certain poster. But there is a way out. Instead of the real vintage posters, you may use high-quality modern stylizations, which aren’t inferior to the real old ones. A new poster with a retro image costs less and that allows you to save money on wall décor. Moreover, it’s not so fragile as the real one and will serve for a longer period of time.
Vintage posters suit almost every interior design from minimalism to modern. Moreover, they can be used in any room, from the entryway to bathroom, because of the great variety of possible themes and color schemes. Vintage prints can be in bright and pastel colors and cover all the possible themes from movies to various kinds of sport.
How we display a poster is a very important thing, which influences our perception of it. For example, a poster can be attached to the wall with the help of thumbtacks like in a dorm room or be placed in a solid frame with anti-reflective glass. The same retro poster will look absolutely different in these two cases.
A couple of original vintage posters are able to enliven the interior design of a living room or a dining room: the décor in the rooms, where guests are received is, as a rule, the reflection of the hosts’ interests. Thus, posters in retro style will show your guests that you are interested in the past epochs, old movies or music.
Sometimes, we want to add bohemian touches to the interior and make the atmosphere relaxed. In this case, vintage posters are just what we need, a democratic and, at the same time, exquisite wall décor. By adding such a poster to the walls of an austere living room, you will turn it into an ideal place for friendly gatherings and intellectual conversations.
Besides home décor, vintage wall art can be used at offices, colleges, restaurants and many other places. They may serve not only for the décor, but for a number of other purposes, for example motivation or education.
Varieties of Vintage Poster Art
As a rule, vintage posters contain the images of old advertisements, movies or magazine covers. Separate themes are pin up posters and the ones, featuring retro cars. However, the varieties of vintage posters don’t end on this list. There are dozens of possible themes and designs for a vintage artwork and 15 most interesting ideas are presented below.
Vintage Movie Posters
A vintage movie poster or a whole collection of such posters can help you to make your home unique and more interesting. There are so many posters for sale from vintage horror movie posters to comedy ones that you won’t feel the lack of choice. Nowadays, you are able to buy an absolutely new poster to any old movie or even find the designs of new movies, made in retro style. You will also find vintage Disney posters featuring the characters of your favorite cartoons, which will make you feel nostalgic. Ones of the most popular movie prints are vintage Star Wars posters. They are liked by the representatives of different generations and genders. It seems that Star Wars movie will never come out of fashion and so do its posters.
A Vintage Star Wars Poster
Vintage Travel Posters
If you like retro style and are fond of travels, you will definitely need to choose a vintage travel poster. There are so many kinds of travel posters that it’s usually hard to choose the one if you aren’t a fan of a certain country or place. If you enjoy travelling around a certain country, it won’t be a challenge for you to choose between vintage Italian posters and vintage French posters.
But if you like travelling in general, you will need to puzzle over if to select several vintage Chicago posters or the one of the Great Wall of China. Among the European vintage posters, the most famous are the ones of Paris, Rome and vintage Disneyland posters.
Vintage posters NYC and the ones of Machu Picchu are most widespread prints from America while Singapore and India images are frequently used by Asia lovers. If you seek for more rare travel posters, you may have a look at vintage national park posters, for example the images of Yellowstone, or vintage airline posters.
A Vintage Paris Poster
Vintage World Map Posters
World maps aren’t just educational tools but also nice decorations. A vintage world map poster will surely be highly estimated by the admirers of geography, history and travels, who want to add a part of their hobbies to the interior design. Such posters usually feature old maps, but it’s also possible to find a modern version, designed in retro style.
A Vintage World Map Poster
Vintage Advertising Posters
Posters have been used for advertising campaigns for a while. While modern ads look strange and awkward in the interior design, the vintage ones can become very stylish additions to the room décor. It can be an advertisement for a certain product, café, service and whatever you like. One of the examples, a bright poster advertising car services, is presented below.
A Vintage Advertising Poster
Vintage Sports Posters
Sports posters can be different for men and women. Vintage cycling posters, vintage racing posters as well as football, basketball and martial arts pictures are especially liked by men while women prefer the images of dances, figure skating and gymnastics. Vintage ski posters or the tennis images are considered to be neutral for both genders. Very often, young people like to decorate the walls of their rooms with the images of extreme kinds of sports, for example vintage surf posters. At the same time, chess posters are usually chosen by people of the older generation.
A Vintage Boxing Poster
Vintage Music Posters
A music poster will be a great decoration for a music fan. Music posters may feature the singers and bands of the past epochs, for example, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. It’s rather hard to find vintage concert posters of certain artists, but they can be replaced with the images of the covers of their albums. Music posters can be dedicated to all possible genres from vintage rock posters to the classical music ones.
Vintage Circus Posters
Modern circus posters will hardly provoke such emotions as the old ones. We don’t know the exact reason, but vintage circus prints much more exciting and appealing. Moreover, they look better in décor, even in the contemporary one. In the majority of cases, such posters contain the pictures of clowns, magicians, animals and circus tents. Some old and black and white photos can be also used for circus prints.
A Vintage Circus Poster
Vintage Blacklight Posters
Blacklight posters are frequently associated with trippy art. Their main feature is that they glow under the influence of an ultra violet light source owing to a special paint. Such posters look cool at clubs and cafes, but can be also used for home décor. They add brightness and originality to the interior design.
A Vintage Blacklight Poster
Vintage Pin Up Posters
The discussion of vintage posters is impossible without pin up photos and images, featuring beautiful girls, usually models and actresses. Very often, the models on such images are dressed in provocative outfits or, even, pose without them. Though pin up posters are rarely used by people, who have children, there is a great number of them, which don’t look too provocative and can be used everywhere.
A Vintage Pin-Up Poster
Vintage Beach Posters
Beach posters add the atmosphere of leisure and relax to the room they are placed in as we are tend to associate them with holidays and bright memories. Vintage beach posters are most frequently made of photos with vintage effects, sepia and black and white pictures or the images of old posters, advertising beach vacation.
A Vintage Beach Poster
Vintage Food Posters
Food posters is a good idea for decorating the walls of your kitchen. You may use the old advertising posters, which were used for café and restaurant decor, food magazine covers or modern photos looking like the old ones. You can also take the images, featuring different kinds of drinks, like vintage beer posters or the ones, depicting coffee.
A Vintage Food Poster
Vintage Flowers Posters
Depending on the design and the color scheme, vintage flowers images can look great in kitchen as well as bedroom décor. For example, the bright pictures, featuring sunflowers, are suitable for kitchens while the images in soft and calm colors will be ideal for a bedroom or a baby room.
Vintage Motivational Posters
The use of vintage inspirational posters is very extensive. They can be used at homes, offices, colleges, public places and anywhere. They can be dedicated to a number of themes starting from simple motivational quotes to more concrete themes, for example, motivational fitness posters or inspirational healthcare posters.
A Vintage Motivational Poster
Vintage Car Posters
Vintage cars look very stylish in the wall décor. You don’t even have to look for vintage styled images as a photo of a retro car will bring the effect of vintage to the room even without any special filters. Together with the cars, you may also hang some vintage motorcycle posters, which also look cool in the interior design.
A Vintage Car Poster
Vintage Art Posters
Vintage art posters are usually the reproductions of paintings. They can be done in a number of genres, but the most important is to make them look as if they are antiques. In such a way, many modern paintings can be turned into retro-styled ones.
A Vintage Art Poster
Year in year out, the number of admirers of vintage style in interior grows. Maybe, it happens because people get tired of the modernity with its glossy surfaces, minimalism and high technologies, and want to fill their interior with something original, warm and spiritual. The interior in vintage style allows enjoying communication with close people without any gadgets and high technologies.
While adding vintage touches to home décor, everyone determines his or her own main features of it and what he or she wants to see in the dwelling. Someone seeks for the rare antiques; some people are content with modern stylizations and the other try to make absolutely new objects look like rarities from the past. So, everything is up to you. And remember that the most important in choosing a vintage poster or any other kind of art for your home is that you like it and enjoy looking at it.
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