Travel Posters, in the Tradition of the Golden Age of the Riviera
Travel posters put the light of a coastline you love on your wall long after the tan has faded. Our Travel collection gathers 45 destination prints drawn from the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the tropics, each one printed on museum-grade 200gsm matte stock and offered from A4 up to poster-sized A1, framed in black or chrome white or shipped unframed. They follow a long tradition: the golden age of the travel poster ran from roughly 1895 to 1940, when artists such as Roger Broders built Art Deco views of the Riviera and the Mediterranean coast for the great railway companies, distilling a whole holiday into one graphic image. Whether you are framing the memory of a honeymoon in Santorini, dreaming of a first trip to Bali, or simply want the calm blue of the Amalfi coast above your desk, there is a print here for your setup, your hallway or your gift list. Because the full range runs on Buy 2 Get 1 Free, a three-poster wall of your favourite places costs less than a single framed print elsewhere.
Below is a guide to the destinations collectors reach for most, grouped by region so you can plan a wall around a single stretch of coast or mix continents freely. Everything we reference is a real product in this collection, so you can click straight through to the piece you want.
The French Riviera and the Cote d'Azur
No coastline is more bound up with the travel poster than the Cote d'Azur. Saint-Tropez was a bohemian fishing village until Roger Vadim filmed 'And God Created Woman' there with Brigitte Bardot in 1956, an event that turned it into a jet-set landmark almost overnight. Along the same shore, Monaco has staged its Grand Prix through the streets of Monte Carlo since the very first race on 14 April 1929, and Cannes has drawn the film world to the Croisette since the festival's opening night on 20 September 1946. Inland and westward the mood softens: Provence for lavender light, Marseille for the salt and stone of France's oldest city, founded by Greek sailors as Massalia around 600 BC, and Paris for the classic city print. For the wilder edge of French waters, Biarritz brings the Belle Epoque surf coast, while Corsica's Bonifacio and Calvi sit on white limestone cliffs above the sea.
The Italian Riviera and the Amalfi Coast
Italy gave the poster its most romantic subjects. The Amalfi coast has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, and just along it Positano is the town John Steinbeck called a dream place in his 1953 essay for Harper's Bazaar, the piece often credited with putting it on the map. Offshore, Capri hides the Blue Grotto, a sea cave that glows electric blue where sunlight passes under an entrance less than a metre high. To the north, Portofino is the pastel harbour of the Italian Riviera, while Venezia sets the city on its lagoon and Milan covers the design-capital side of a city-break wall.
Spain, the Balearics and the Canaries
The Spanish coast and its islands are built for warm colour. Ibiza appears four ways here, from the famous glow of Ibiza Sunset and the free-spirited Ibiza Bohemia to Ibiza Shell and Ibiza Sunlight; the whole island was inscribed by UNESCO in 1999 for both its old town and its seagrass meadows. On the mainland, Barcelona carries Gaudi's Catalan modernism, while Malaga and Marbella hold down the Costa del Sol. Out in the islands, Palma frames the Mallorcan capital and Tenerife and Lanzarote bring the volcanic light of the Canaries.
The Greek islands and the Aegean
Few views say holiday faster than a whitewashed Cyclades wall. Santorini was once a round island called Strongyli until a Bronze Age eruption around 1650 BC collapsed its centre into the crescent caldera we photograph today. Nearby Mykonos is crowned by the Kato Mili windmills the Venetians raised around the 16th century, and Athenes anchors the set with the ancient capital itself.
The Caribbean, the tropics and city breaks
The collection then leaves the Med entirely. Tulum is the only major Maya city built on the coast, its temples set on cliffs above the Caribbean, while Cancun, the Bahamas and Miami bring the warm Atlantic and Hawaii the Pacific surf. La Habana puts Old Havana, a UNESCO site since 1982, on your wall, and further afield Bali, whose Subak rice terraces were UNESCO-listed in 2012, Hoi An, a trading port listed in 1999, Marrakech and Mauritius cover the long-haul dream list. Down under, Bondi and Byron Bay, beside the easternmost point of mainland Australia, close the tropics. For a classic city-break grid, add London, Lisbonne, Porto, Dublin or Los Angeles.
Sizes, frames and building a travel wall
Every design ships in A4, A3, A2 and A1. A4 and A3 suit a desk, a shelf or a tight bedroom grid, while A2 and A1 work as a single statement piece above a bed or sofa. Choose black framing for deep-blue sea and sunset scenes, chrome white to lift pale stone and whitewashed island views, or unframed for the flexible, lower-cost route. All prints use museum-grade 200gsm matte stock for deep colour and a glare-free finish that holds up for years. The easiest gallery to start is a themed trio: a Riviera view, a Med island and a warm escape, kept to a single frame colour and a repeated A3 size for a clean grid. Thanks to Buy 2 Get 1 Free, that third print is on the house, which makes a proper travel wall the best-value corner of the shop.
