Thursday 6 November 2008

On iron

The Iron Museum in Rouen is a real walk into history. All kind of tools and topics can be seen there. Nothing escapes the collection. it's a gorgeous festival of art and decoration. From the most commons tools for the kitchen to the complex mechanism of lockets. The beautiful keys, the grills that take you in a romantic travel into lovers' conversations and mysterious nunneries.
But we got particularly interested in these great publicity works, the ancestors of our neon advertisements. The beginning of advertising over our heads in the most flourished decoration, here they are






1 comment:

ivasil said...

So much for thinking that we invented publicity. As well as many other things!Only these are more decent than ours.