Title
Illy Caffé

Designer
Xanti Schawinsky

Firm
Studio Boggeri

Year
1934

Client
Illycaffè

Medium
Poster

Size
c.87×61 cm

Notes
A pre-design poster advertising Illy—probably Italy’s best-known coffee producer. It shows both the aesthetic sensibility and painting skill of Xanti Schawinsky, who drawn an elegant silhouette with a surrealist, dreaming feeling using complementary colours magenta and blue. Printed in Milan by Arti Grafiche Pizzi. [NM]

Tags
Painting, Swiss