Piatti - Lyons International Fair Poster - c. 1959

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Vintage Lyons International Fair Poster, c. 1959 designed by Celestino Piatti.
Lithograph. France.
Measures 39 x 24 inches.
Very good condition; some minor edge wear.
This is an actual original vintage poster. Not a reproduction.

Celestino Piatti (1922-2007) was a Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer. He is popular for his illustration work for children's books, though he also achieved international success as a designer for Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV), whose books, from 1961 until the mid-1990s, were designed almost exclusively by Piatti, a total of over 6,300 titles. In addition to the cover design, he was responsible for typography, Signet, letterheads, advertisements and posters, providing a uniform identity to the DTV catalog.

Piatti was born in Wangen-Br

Piatti created book covers, picture books and book illustrations, working in a balance of International Typographic Style juxtaposed with his quirky illustration style. The current total number of copies for which he provided the layout is over 200 million. In addition to posters and books, his works also include free prints (lithograph, woodcut and linocut), stamps (those whose best known for the anniversary "100 Years Gotthardbahn" applies), glass pictures, murals and other paintings and ceramics and sculptures.

A motif that runs through his entire work, is the owl, as a messenger of good luck or misfortune, or as a symbol of wisdom. 1992 Piatti said in a magazine: "You can draw a thousand times the owl, but never get its secret".

In 1987, the DTV produced a retrospective book on Piatti, Celestino Piatti, Meister des graphischen Sinnbilds.

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