Philip Williams is the prolific collector and director of Philip Williams Posters, founded in 1973. His Tribeca gallery, located on Chambers Street, is the largest vintage poster gallery in the world with over 100,000 unique posters dating from 1870 to the present. The Tribeca brick-and-mortar storefront is supplemented with an online platform, PosterMuseum.com, which contains some 26,000 posters.
In this episode, Philip Williams tells fascinating stories cultivated from over 40 years of collecting vintage posters and details how it all started, after finding letters from aviation pioneer Orville Wright in an abandoned suitcase.
We also learn about the poster as cultural artifact: From the first golden age of the vintage poster in the late 19th century driven by innovative printing techniques and emerging mass markets; to the second golden age in the mid 1960s, where posters were repurposed as countercultural protest; to its use today, as a staple in contemporary interior design
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DESIGN - Interview with Paola Antonelli
PUBLIC ART FUND - Interview with Susan Freedman
ART IN THE NEW GRAND CENTRAL MADISON - Interview with Sandra Bloodworth
A DIAMOND IS FOREVER - Interview with Greg Kwiat
COLLECTIBLE DESIGN - Interview with Evan Snyderman & Zesty Meyers
NAMES OF NEW YORK - Interview with Joshua Jelly-Shapiro
RICHARD SAUL WURMAN - Interview with Richard Saul Wurman
MARK SELIGER - Interview with Mark Seliger
NYC JEWELRY WEEK - Interview with Bella Neyman & JB Jones
ADFF, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN FILM FESTIVAL - Interview with Kyle Bergman
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PAULA SCHER - Interview with Paula Scher
THE SHED - Interview with Emma Enderby
MODERNISM - Interview with George Smart
SNØHETTA - Interview with Craig Dykers
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DEFINING PERFORMANCE ART - Interview with Roselee Goldberg
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