Horace Taylor’s For Christmas, Shop Between 10 & 4 and Travel Underground is a wonderfully colorful example of British Art Deco poster design, created to encourage London shoppers to use the Underground during the Christmas season. A blond child in striped pajamas stands surrounded by an exuberant collection of toys, including a rocking horse, stuffed animals, a penguin, a teddy bear, and a brightly colored ball. Taylor’s simplified forms, vivid orange, purple, yellow, green, and blue palette, and playful arrangement give the scene the cheerful modernity characteristic of 1920s commercial illustration.
Designed for London Underground in 1924, the poster combines seasonal advertising with the distinctive visual language of the period’s transport posters. Rather than depicting London itself, Taylor makes childhood and Christmas the focus, using the promise of convenient Underground travel as the connection between shopping and the festive world of toys. Taylor was an English commercial artist and poster designer who created numerous designs for London transport, and his work is noted for its brightly colored, highly stylized Art Deco aesthetic. The poster is a particularly charming example of vintage London Underground advertising and 1920s Christmas design.
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– Made with museum-grade archival paper for excellent printing fidelity and vibrant color reproduction
– Paper weight: 189 g/m2
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