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AntikBar is the London gallery specialising in original vintage posters covering a wide variety of subjects - travel, advertising, sport, cinema, war, propaganda - from around the world. Our stock is available to view at our gallery and on our website. Services: We offer collection advice, consultancy and search on demand services for collectors, individual clients, interior designers, museums and other institutions. Worldwide delivery. We also offer professional linen backing and poster restoration services with our partners in California. Events: We host regular original vintage poster auctions, exhibitions and talks at our gallery and participate in other events during the year. We are also available to give educational art history talks and organise special exhibitions. Please contact us if you have any queries or visit us at our gallery: 404 King's Road, Chelsea, London SW10 0LJ (more information, including directions and our opening hours, is given here). Please scroll down for feature links and customer testimonials. AntikBar is a Member of The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers (LAPADA), UK Posters Network and the International Vintage Poster Dealers' Association (IVPDA). Kirill Kalinin, Founder of AntikBar: "My interest in original vintage poster art and graphic design started in 1993 when I saw an exhibition poster for The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde 1915-1932 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The boldness and sheer visual impact of the image, the composition and bold, bright colours made a lasting impression on me and I decided to look into acquiring some works from that period. After several years of collecting (during my career in finance), I founded AntikBar as an online gallery in 2010. Due to increasing demand from clients wishing to view our posters between fairs, we opened our gallery on the King's Road in 2016." Kirill is the current President of the International Vintage Poster Dealers' Association (IVPDA). Posters are a true form of art with a purpose as they were designed to deliver a particular message through striking designs. These original vintage posters were created to grab the attention of passers-by, presenting artists with the challenge of condensing the message or a concept into a precise, short visual and written form in a single artwork. They are important items of social history that capture the essence of the time they were printed. Original vintage posters are recognised as a sound art investment that can be enjoyed every day. Posters were elevated to an art form by French artists at the end of the 19th century. Struggling to make living, they supplemented their income by designing posters. The standards set by the French poster designers raised the bar for other countries and led to a wider acceptance of this media by the art community. Being very topical, posters absorbed and reflected the prevailing and changing art styles and fashions at a rapid pace and became part of the avant-garde art movement. (Read also the features on AntikBar and collecting posters by Homes & Antiques in their Summer 2017 and Christmas 2016 issues and by Antique Collecting and Invaluable; a 2017 article on travel posters in Period Living; the Financial Times, The Times and Luxury Living Magazine round-up in January 2015; an FT feature on their How to Spend It Art page; and the Art, Antiques and Luxury Design blog - all listed on our News & Events pages with other poster-related information, including links to our special information pages on skiing, London Underground, constructivism etc. and tips on looking after original vintage posters.) Practically all of the posters found on our website are lithographs. This is a method of printing that involves carving each colour of the image onto a piece of stone. The poster sheet is then imprinted consecutively with a stone slab for each colour, creating a stunning and rich image. With the exception of silk printing, I believe that other printing techniques do not deliver the same impact of colour as lithography. We are available to give collection advice and have produced a short "Introduction to Collecting Posters" booklet, which is available at our gallery and online. Please contact us if you would like any more information. Customer Testimonials Here are a few comments from customers who have ordered posters from our website and customers who have used our poster restoration services, as well as visitors who have left us general comments about our gallery and events: Orders "Thank you for your professional service. I received the poster today and it’s fantastic. I look forward to working with you again and visiting your shop when next in London. A." "A note to thank you for the poster...ordered yesterday, received this morning in Scotland, sensibly packed and fairly described. That’s customer service. Many thanks, C." "I just received the poster back from framing and it is lovely. Thank you very much! N." "Wow. The poster arrived and it is just so lovely it made D. cry she was so touched. A." "All good. Thanks for the super fast delivery. M." "I wanted to let you know that I am very happy with the two posters that I purchased from you! Thank you so much! B." "We are delighted with the posters! Many thanks, M." "Looks great, very happy with the poster - I'm getting it framed now. Will certainly look to you for future business! S." "I just want to tell you that the poster, which is gorgeous, could not have been packed better for shipping. Outstanding care, which is most appreciated! H." "Thank you very much for your quick and efficient service. The poster arrived this morning and it is fantastic. A." "I received the poster in good order. It is a beautiful poster, very nostalgic where I can easily dream away, back into my native Holland. It was also very well packed, very professional. Thank you! Best wishes from Dubai, J." "The poster arrived safely and it is amazing! I worked a 14 hour day yesterday, got home after midnight, opened it and was so tired but really had a magic of a moment looking at it and the true colors. I've lived 20 years with a reproduction of this poster. I will treasure this (original) version until the last of my days. Thank you for making this possible. N." "Was scouring the Internet for a very particular and hard-to-find vintage travel poster, AntikBar was the only place anywhere that had it. The price was very fair, the condition was even better than I expected and the shipping (to the US) was a breeze. Would definitely look to use them again as I expand my collection! S." "The posters arrived safely at the National Library yesterday. They’re very beautiful and in great condition. Thank you very much. P." "Thank you for the prompt delivery of the poster. It's fabulous and in great condition, as promised. A." "I greatly appreciate Antikbar's fast and efficient processing of my poster order. I had been searching for this particular poster for several years and I'm very pleased to have been able to finally find one and add it to my collection. Many thanks! P." Restoration Services "Can I say a big thank you to everyone who was involved in the restoration of the Steve McQueen Bullitt poster. I have been blown away at the standard of work carried out by all who worked on it and the easiness of communication. It’s now being framed and will be in pride of place shortly. I hope this will be the first of many projects. Many thanks, D." "I received the quad this morning, and all I can say is I'm 100% satisfied, the linen-backing & restoration are flawless - Poster Mountain have done the best work I've ever seen and I hope to have many more posters done by them. Thanks again, B." "Got my posters today and they look great. Thank you so much once again. M." "Super job! I have just compared the latest image to the one I took before I sent the poster to you. What a transformation. I’ll certainly want to use you / Poster Mountain again. S." "Once again Poster Mountain have done a superb job, thanks very much. B." "Fantastic service and quality - have had many vintage posters linen backed through Antikbar and Poster Mountain and they've never ceased to impress. Superb results. M." Please visit www.antikbar.co.uk/poster_restoration for more information on our linen backing and poster restoration services, which we offer in partnership with Poster Mountain in California. Gallery, Website & Events "Very good indeed. W." "I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say how much I enjoyed the Cunard talk last night. It was very interesting and I could happily have listened to more. Thanks once again for putting it on. T." "Very good. An interesting collection, something for everyone. Thank you, M." "If you are looking for original vintage posters this is the shop to visit in London. D." "I very much enjoyed the event this evening and learned a lot from your talk! Many thanks, M." "I regret that I am unable to visit your shop at this time but I really am amazed at your website and collection. Thank you very much. J." "Always fun to stop here. Fantastic stock! T." "The shop you need to visit in London if you love original vintage posters! Lots of great stuff. D." "Such a cool store; I love it! C." You can now also leave us a rating and review on Facebook and on Google; as well as on Time Out; on Trip Advisor; and on Yell. Thank you! And, if you're unable to visit us, you can go on a Google virtual tour of our gallery by clicking here (featuring the display from our 2016 spring exhibition, The Age of Steam).