Vintage Design

I was checking one of my email links from Fab.com, (btw if you haven't subscribed or checked out the site you really should, its awesome) and I came across a shop by Cool Culinaria that has vintage menus and designs. I loved it so much I wanted to show off a few of my favorite ones.

China Doll in NYC

Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans

Louigi's in Las Vegas

Latin Quarter in NYC

Muff's Club in CA

The dirty bird in me finds this menu quite hilarious, just because the term "Muff" now means something very different from a clothing accessory. LOL

The Hurricane in NYC

I love vintage art, from real life photographs to billboards, drawn and painted art to now menu art. I think they really capture the time they were drawn in, for the location they were designed for. The Louigi's ad reeks of retro Vegas, while at first I thought the Hurricane was set in Miami. The designs are a stark contrast from today's menus but I personally think these menus have personality and a style befitting of the time. I want these hanging in my house; too bad my thrift stores don't carry many authentic vintage items that I could scoop up on the cheap. 

When you check out the site, they have more than what was featured in the Fab shop; the reason why I didn't include the link to the Fab shop was because only a few pieces are featured there, and because the link will be dead in a few days--Fab is a revolving parent shop to smaller featured companies, who hold shops for a couple of weeks at most. It's better to just give you the parent site but I really think you should go have a look.

Cool Culinaria's website
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