Menton vintage French travel poster by Roger Broders 1922 - digitally restored printable wall art mockup

Grand Tours & Hot Cocoa: Seven New Vintage Posters

This week’s arrivals fell out of the envelope in a rather pleasing order: six travel posters that read like an itinerary, and one chocolate poster for the journey home. Seven new restorations in all — every one an instant download in five print-ready sizes, just €5 each.

First stop: the Riviera, in three golden ages

Every Grand Tour worth its salt starts on the Côte d’Azur. Roger Broders opens the proceedings with Menton, the pearl of the Riviera (1922) — citrus groves, winter sunshine and that unmistakable Broders light — before rolling up the coast to the casino tables of his Monaco Monte-Carlo (1922). For a different shade of Riviera, Georges Dorival’s Hyères (1914) frames the palm-lined promenade with all the poise of a pre-war travel poster at its height.

On to Rome

Broders again, wearing his railway hat: his Rome for the PLM railway (1921) sells the Eternal City to French travellers with Colosseum grandeur and a very 1920s sense of occasion. This one anchors the collection — a master of the form, working at the top of his game.

A detour into the snow

Then the tour heads uphill. Carlo Pellegrini’s Gstaad — Royal Hotel & Winter Palace is winter-sport advertising from the era when skiing, bob-running and curling were glamorous new reasons to catch a train up a mountain. Filippo Romoli’s Merano for ENIT (1940) takes the Italian side of the Alps, where the thermal water was so fashionable it was proudly advertised as radioactive. Different times, glorious poster.

And something warm for the journey home

No tour ends well without cocoa. Our closing arrival is the rich, stately Mohren Cacao (1900–1915) — early twentieth-century chocolate advertising at its most reassuring, deep cocoa browns and period lettering intact. Hang it in the kitchen and pour yourself a cup.

As ever, every poster here has been digitally restored by an artist — wear removed, colours refreshed, vintage character untouched — and arrives as an instant download in five print-ready sizes. Explore the full Vintage Travel Posters archive or browse the Vintage Food & Drink Posters shelf for more.


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