Date: 1960s
Size: 25 x 39 inches
Artist: Unknown
About The Poster:
By design, travel posters must express, in clear, concise and easily understandable graphic language, who the carrier is, where their destinations are, how they get there, and why you would want to use them. Whether we are talking about the great posters of the French (or Swiss, or Italian) railways from the early 1900s, or the early Canadian Pacific Railway (or airline) posters or mid-century airline travel posters - like this one for the Belgian air carrier Sabena - the posters had to grab your attention, and make you want to travel. This is a wonderful poster (which now has an almost delicious retro feel about it) illustrating some of the wonderful things Sabena passengers could do in Brussels.
"SABENA was the national airline of Belgium from 1923 to 2001, with its base at Brussels National Airport. After its bankruptcy in 2001, the newly-formed SN Brussels Airlines took over part of SABENA's assets in February 2002, which then became Brussels Airlines. The airline had its corporate headquarters in the Sabena House on the grounds of Brussels Airport in Zaventem."