Blain Poster
Blain posters for Air Vietnam allow you to escape to Asian lands from the comfort of your own home, thanks to their vibrant colors and depictions of dragons and monuments with exceptional architecture. Oneart experts have selected two advertising posters for you, from the Air France Legend collection, offered by the brand's official museum. Printed on demand on high-quality paper, they will bring a touch of exoticism and refinement to your interior.
Destination Vietnam with the artist Blain
In the 1950s, Air France opened up to the world, and particularly to Asia. As early as 1947, it operated a weekly route connecting Saigon, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, before focusing more on the Vietnamese capital. Now called Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon represented a strategic point for companies like Air France, serving as a gateway to many other Asian destinations.
To highlight this connection with Vietnam, Air France commissioned, among others, the designer Blain between 1956 and 1960 to create original advertising posters. He notably produced the two superb illustrations that we have selected for you.The first one evokes Hanoi., which is one of the most populous cities in the country, and its magnificent architecture. Rather than mentioning the name of Air France, the artist chose to indicate that of Air Vietnam, a company that had just been founded, further inviting travel. The yellow tones in the background evoke the local heat and the green, the Vietnamese jungle.
A second poster shows a dragon., a symbol of Asia, watching over a plane in flight. To represent Air Vietnam again, the artist chose to draw the creature right next to the cockpit, on the plane. It appears as an extension of the initial dragon, facing the sun.
Air France Legend posters by Oneart
Oneart experts select iconic images that are a testament to an era and possess timeless charm. That's why we chose theAir France Legend collection, from the Air France Museum, which includes advertising posters from different eras. We have included several in our catalog, all of which bear an official stamp in the lower right corner, indicating "Air France Legend Art Editions". This stamp attests to the authenticity of the poster, taken from the Air France historical heritage collection.
Like all our products, our Air France posters by the designer Blain are made with the utmost care, on demand, using a digital printing process. This system guarantees high-quality posters, made to order and not in mass production. This way, we preserve both the quality of the illustrations and the planet's resources. For durable and even more refined posters, we use cream-colored vellum paper, whose grain and color evoke the era of fine literature from the last century. All our products are hand-printed by experts in our workshop in Fontainebleau.
