Saturday, February 21, 2015

Vintage Color Palette - Charleston Garden & The Sherman Chicago

Vintage Color Palette - Mid-Century Advertising Illustration - Altman's Charleston Garden. See more with hex codes on the blog. - Ponyboy Press

These two Vintage Color Palettes are perfect for showing off the unique colors used in vintage mid-century advertising illustrations. This is total Mad Men territory.  

The above VCP is from a postcard for Altman's Charleston Garden on 5th Avenue in New York. This was the restaurant in B Altman & Co - a department store at the time. It seems to still be there as an event space. This restaurant was on the fifth floor of the building! Oh, I wish I could have seen it. 

This postcard was sent in August 1956 to Laguna Beach, CA from Flushing, NY. 

The hex codes for this palette are from left to right: 287e68, 2e7a9a, 994c59, 70b4a4.



Vintage Color Palette - Mid-Century Advertising Illustration - The Sherman in Chicago. See more with hex codes on the blog. - Ponyboy Press

This illustrated advertising color palette is from a postcard for The Sherman Hotel in Chicago. 
This color palette is so sophisticated mid-century. I love the colors and could totally imagine a living room or office lobby done in these colors. This postcard has no message on the back.

The hex colors for this palette are from top to bottom: d07828, aa4b0d, 76949a, d8cea8.

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