Win a Dazzling Original Poster from Pullman Editions

[Our Giveaway contest is now closed. Thank you to all of our entrants. One lucky winner was chosen at random. Fiona from Suffolk, UK has won the fabulous prize!]

From the walls of Saint Germain bistros to the homes of art connoisseurs, vintage French posters are having a heyday. Over the last decade, there’s been tremendous growth in the vintage poster market. Prices are soaring as demand increases for a product with only a finite supply. Take, for example, the vintage Winter Sports posters. Good ones from the 1920s and 1930s comfortably achieve five-figure sums at auction, with the finest posters reaching as much as £30,000 on the rare occasions they become available, excluding them to all but the wealthiest collectors.

Poster display was never more inspired than in the Art Deco period when posters, largely produced by Swiss and French railway companies, graced station platforms and billboards to persuade affluent and adventurous travellers to enjoy the newly-fashionable modern luxury travel. The vast majority of these classic posters were destroyed when replaced by other posters – it is the handful of surviving vintage posters that today fetch such dramatic prices.

Lucky for us, there’s a company today that creates attractive, Art Deco-inspired posters at affordable prices. Pullman Editions designs, commissions and publishes striking original posters which capture the enduring appeal of Art Deco. Their newly-commissioned posters feature glamorous travel destinations around the world, winter sports in the French and Swiss Alps, and the world’s greatest historic automobiles on the road and track. These decorative posters are a modern alternative to the costly original Art Deco posters produced ‘in-period’. Executed by leading poster artists, each with their own unique ‘signature style’, these editions combine originality with the quintessential heritage and dramatic imagery of vintage posters. Posters by Pullman Editions make original gifts.

And just in time for the festive season, France Today is offering you, our dear readers, the chance to win the colourful “Summer on the French Riviera” poster, which evokes the glitz and the glamour of the Cote d’Azur. A £395 value! Simply sign up for Le Petit Journal, our free weekly newsletter, for the chance to win. A curated selection of France Today’s top articles, our free newsletter delivers France-fresh content straight to your inbox every week. The winner will be chosen at random and announced via the website, Twitter, and Facebook. Sign up here.

More about Pullman Editions:

Available in strictly limited editions of 280, the posters are printed using traditional techniques on the finest quality 100% cotton fine art paper. They are signed, hand-numbered and bear Pullman Editions’ embossed stamp of authenticity. Each poster is approximately 97 x 65 cms (38 x 26 inches), and they are supplied unframed in robust tubes, which can be shipped worldwide. A framing service is also offered for personal shoppers at the London gallery. Priced at £395 each including VAT (unframed), the limited-edition posters may be ordered online at www.pullmaneditions.com, or collected in person at the London gallery near Sloane Square in Chelsea, open 10am until 6pm Tuesday to Friday and between 11am and 5pm on Saturdays. Visit www.pullmaneditions.com to view the current Art Deco poster collections.

Terms and conditions for this Giveway contest: Employees (and their relatives) of France Media Group are not eligible to enter. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The competition closes at midnight on December 31, 2014. No cash alternative given. The prize comprises of Pullman Editions’ “Summer on the French Riviera” poster only. In the event that a prize cannot be supplied, no liability will attach to France Media Group. No purchase necessary.