L'Odeon Poster laying on a beach artist Intuit Lab

artist  Intuit Lab

Barbara Lingen

Gustaf Chelius

"Soap of the Princes of Kashmir" This elegant folded out soap box by Paul Tranoy has a distinct Art Deco design

L'Odeon Poster laying on a beach artist Intuit LabPoster for the Odeon Theater in Paris, showing a scene from a theater balcony, richly dressed women watching a play below. It was in the 1890s that the poster started being more widely recognized as form of artistic expression. The poster became an integral part of the cityscape during the Belle Epoque, turn of the century period in Europeits colorful, larger than life images both indispensible to advertising and a venerated art form in itself.