Vichy / Comite des Fetes 1926
Buy this print on Etsy →If any poster deserves to be called cinematic, it is Roger Broders's Vichy, Comité des Fêtes of 1926. A vision of pleasure and glamour so complete it might have drifted straight out of the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald, it captures the Roaring Twenties at their most intoxicating.
The scene pulses with elegance and grandeur. Fashionable couples gather beneath glowing Chinese lanterns, a ballet unfolds on a floating stage, and gondolas glide across illuminated waters beneath cascading fireworks. Every element conspires toward enchantment, and the whole composition shimmers with the nocturnal magic of a festival in full swing. It is little wonder the poster is regarded as one of the most captivating travel images ever created, a distillation of an entire era's appetite for beauty and delight. Vichy was then at the peak of its fame as a spa town, and Broders gives its evening revels the polish of a stage set.
Roger Broders (1883-1953) was a leading French Art Deco poster designer whose luminous railway images lured a generation toward the Alps, the Jura and the sun-drenched Riviera. He built his scenes from flat planes of saturated colour and elegant simplification, yet as Vichy proves, he could also orchestrate a crowded, glittering spectacle. He remains one of the most collectable names of the golden age of rail.
Art Deco, born in 1920s France, celebrated speed, luxury and machine-age geometry, and no image embodies its glamour more fully than this one. Broders stylises the festival's lanterns, water and fireworks into bold, decorative colour, giving the night an air of streamlined modern romance that still feels irresistible a century on.
Displayed large, the poster becomes a dazzling focal point, its lantern-lit palette bringing warmth and celebration to a room. It looks spectacular above a sofa, bar or bed, anchors a gallery wall of vintage and Art Deco prints, and suits a living room, dining room, home bar, hallway or entertaining space, lending any interior a sense of festivity and 1920s style.
Each print is produced to order on premium 189 gsm museum-grade archival matte paper with fade-resistant pigment inks, for rich, gallery-quality colour and crisp, faithful detail. Choose your size from the drop-down menu: 8x12, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30 or 24x36 inches. Orders are carefully packaged and shipped rolled in a sturdy tube, or flat for the smallest size; a frame is not included.
This is a faithful fine-art reproduction of the original stone lithograph, colour-matched and printed to archival standards rather than a flat mass-market copy. It preserves the texture and character of the antique poster while arriving crisp, clean and ready to frame.
It makes a memorable gift for anyone who loves vintage travel posters, the Jazz Age and Art Deco design, or the golden age of rail, and a lasting way to bring a piece of 1920s glamour into a home, studio or workplace.
