Original Exhibition Poster 1960s Focus, Westmount Square - Vittorio
Date: 1960s
Size: 20 x 26
Notes: Poster, Small
Artist: Vittorio
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About The Poster: Focus was a design center and store in the popular Montreal location of Westmount Square, itself designed by architect-superstar Mies Van Der Rohe. During the 1960s, Focus was opened by interior designer A. Haddad, member of the Interior Decorators' Society of Quebec, as an "international design center with articles of beauty from all over" ("Design for living center" The Montreal Gazette, October 24, 1968). It is no surprise that with so much respect for good design and so much ambition for his shop that Mr. Haddad would have wanted the famed Quebec graphic designer, Vittorio Fiorrucci, to produce this poster for his shop (or for an exhibition at this shop?)
On Vittorio Fiorucci, Wikipedia writes " (1932 – July 30, 2008) was an Italian Canadian poster artist from Montreal, Canada.Fiorucci was born on 2 November 1932 in Zara (Italy). During World War Two when Zara was about to be captured by Yugoslavia, Fiorucci and his family fled to Venice, Italy, where he subsequently spent most of his childhood before coming to Canada in 1951. By 1960, he was an established artist and by 1980 was one of the most renowned poster designers in the world. Fiorucci was awarded a Moebius Award at the 1998 International Advertising Awards of Chicago, and lifetime achievement awards from the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators and the Institute of Design Montréal.[1] Fiorucci worked in a variety of mediums: he did illustration works for magazines (including the film magazine Take One), children's books, animation, and was an established photographer who was exhibited in 1958 at George Eastman House's International Exhibition of the World's Greatest Photographers.[2][3]His work was used to promote many of the films that marked the beginning of independent Québécois cinema, and appeared in magazines as varied as Timeand (the cinema magazine) Take One. He created the logo for the Le Château chain of clothing stores, and the green mascot Victor of the Just For Laughsfestival. He died from a stroke on July 30, 2008."
