Love the oversize posters

Forget the Keep Calm poster; where is the cat painting from!? Or is it an original?

I bought a huge, old French biscuit poster from the 30's and have it in my dining room (I can see it from my kitchen). It's fabulous! The graphics are great. I wish I could purchase more of them.

Look at art.com when they have their poster sales! I have many and interchange them! See one in my teeny tiny office that I put up during the cure. I love it so much I put it on my jewelry website. http://ddsdesigns.webs.com/

me too jcmitten!

*jcsmitten that is

FYI a great resource for graphic posters and framing in Toronto (and I believe they ship to USA) is Telegramme Prints - http://www.telegramme.ca/
They're also very friendly.

I have the most beautiful original framed movie posters from the 1960's but they wouldn't fit in our new house with the fancy wainscotting...we ended up putting them in our bedroom which doesn't have the limits of the rest of the house. Any ideas for working with wainscotting and large framed posters? Ours was tilted and looked silly with the half and half walls.

@qtcrondesign - we just put in wainscoting ourselves (see here), and now I'm left with all this artwork that can't possibly fit above it - especially an oversized French poster we've had forever. The only place it's going to look right is if we ever finish the basement (doubtful).

qtcrondesign.....you could always do the wire hanging technique that some museums do. You attach it to the ceiling with eye hole screws and sturdy wire almost to where the ceiling meets the wall. Then it would hang down against the wainscoting...you'd have a gap, but then it wouldn't bulge out weird...

The Italian foglios/movie posters (55x78 inches) look pretty cool, but the French 1 panels (47x63) are probably a better fit for smaller wall spaces.

If you want to find out more about these incredible vintage movie poster artists and styles, check out these beauties!

http://meansheets.com/category/french-movie-posters/

We have several large prints in our home, including several vintage originals. A couple of things to consider:
1.) With very few exceptions, vintage prints are expensive. A good alternative for many people is the huge number of high-quality giclee reproductions available for places like http://www.art.com.
2.) Especially with large prints, framing is hard to find and _very_ expensive (i.e. many times more than the print). Consider if you can get by with a smaller print or use non-traditional means of hanging them (e.g. http://www.posterhanger.com/)

I can't disagree more about giclee repros -- I've found plenty of great vintage prints for next to nothing on ebay and etsy and various other places, and to my eye faux vintage is worse than plastic covers on lumpy grandma sofas. Yes, that bad. I also disagree about framing being hard to find. Even people who live in the sticks have internet access, if they're reading this, and there are all sorts of relatively inexpensive framing options available. framesbymail.com is ok, not ideal but certainly not going to cost hundreds and hundreds, and major chain art stores tend to have inexpensive options too. I just discovered these, haven't tried them yet but they look ok:

http://www.dickblick.com/products/nielsen-bainbridge-frame-kits/

In my opinion it's better to get an inexpensive frame around something you love rather than settle for something less interesting. You can always have whatever it is re-framed later on when you're feeling flush. If someone hasn't got enough for even a cheapo frame, numbered map tacks are a more stylish option than plain old push pins -- I'm pretty sure I read about that idea on AT a long time ago, actually! -- and they're about $5 per box.

Funny that Apple picture is among the NYC scavenger finds today! Timing!

I have several large vintage UK theatre posters hanging framed. Also have an approximately 5x6 foot Masterpiece Theatre THE BRETTS which I just can't fit in my new place yet...

my workplace has a lot of midcentury polish movie posters from the chisholm gallery in nyc. they're so beautiful and utilize really great combinations of typefaces and illustration, here's the website:
http://www.vintagepostersnyc.com/index.htm

Regarding the framing suggestions here. Though there are cheap options you get what you pay for. If you are going to invest in high quality vintage posters - large or small-making an investment in the framing is making an investment in the art. If you don't use conservation glass or glass coated with UV coating your print will fade and discolor over time. It may also curl and wrinkle. The piece should be mounted on acid free foam core and then framed with conservation material. A custom framer will tell you the best way to handle this.

@qtcrondesign
@A from IsItAHouseYet

Re. wainscoting: Might a "frame riser" work in your situations? Pottery Barn sells 4" deep ones for $16 here: http://www.potterybarn.com/products/frame-riser/?pkey=cshelves-ledges

Perhaps combining several to spread the weight load might do the trick. It's not a solution in a narrow space like a hallway but it might work where there's more room.

ooOooOOooo thanks for all the links! And thanks j1544k ... a Toronto source!

Seriously affordable art: http://greenpaperhouse.com/
You can design your own too!

Please take a look at my graphic prints over at Onesidezero Illustration Big Cartel