© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
- Previously on FAB – March 3, 2013
- Washington Cracker Co – Historic Spokane
March, 2013:
Home of SnowFlake Saltines – National Biscuit Company – Washington Cracker Co – Spokane, WA
Tom Keene Cigars – Tom Moore Cigars Pentimento – Furnished Rooms – Spokane, WA
July 2009 © Frank H. Jump
- Tom Moore Cigars – Hot Springs AR – FAB – Sept 2009 & on Flickr!
- Tom Keene Cigars – Ghost Signs Seattle
Lowlands Correspondent: Gaia Son – Miss Blanche Virginia Cigarettes – Leiden, NL – Vilmos Huszar: De Stijl & Dutch Modernism
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960) was a Hungarian painter and designer. He lived in The Netherlands, where he was one of the founder members of the art movement De Stijl.
Huszár was born in Budapest, Hungary. He emigrated to The Netherlands in 1905, settling at first in Voorburg. He was influenced by Cubism and Futurism. He met other influential artists including Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, both central figures in establishing the De Stijl movement with Huszár in 1917. Huszár also co-founded the De Stijl magazine and designed the cover for the first issue.
In 1926 he created a complete visual identity for Miss Blanche Virginia cigarettes, which included packaging, advertising, andpoint of sale displays. The concept drew on the imagery associated with the emergent “New Women”, or Flappers. The Flappers were perceived as young, single, urban, and employed, with independent ideas and a certain disdain for authority and social norms. The smoking of cigarettes was closely associated with their newfound independence. –Wikipedia
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Bensdorp Cacao – Bussum, NL
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Can be seen from the train from Amsterdam to Hilversum. © Frank H. Jump
The Bensdorp company was founded in 1840 in the Kerkstraat 184 in Amsterdam by Gerardus Bernardus Bensdorp as a chocolate factory. By the end of the 19th and early 20th century there were stores in Germany and Austria.
In 1901, the Bensdorp chocolate factory was in the German city of Kleve erected near the margarine works of Van den Bergh. During World War II, the chocolate factory was completely destroyed. In 1949, the Bensdorp operations resumed. In 1962, a merger with the cocoa producers Bensdorp Blooker’s Cacao en Chocolade Fabrieken based in Amsterdam. In 1971, the company was taken over by Unilever. The company was sold in 1984 to the Barry Callebaut Group (Switzerland), which has retained the name Bensdorp today. – Wikipedia (DE)
Bear Brand Hosiery – Fit for all the family – Ken Bush Company – Dry Goods Realty Building – Spokane, WA – July 2009
170 South Lincoln Street © Vincenzo Aiosa
© Vincenzo Aiosa
Ken Bush Company 170 South Lincoln Street © Vincenzo Aiosa
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