Alpine Calm Wall Art

Alpine Calm — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. New Zealand's interwar tourism posters — commissioned by the Railways Studio and the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts — turned Lake Wakatipu and The Remarkables into Art Deco icons with slogans like Get in the queue for Queenstown and Playground of the Pacific. The Remarkables (Kawarau in Māori) rise sharply from the lake's southeastern shore; Queenstown itself sits at the foot of the range and remains the gateway to Central Otago wine country, ski fields, and the landscapes Peter Jackson later mapped onto Middle-Earth. Switzerland produced some of the twentieth century's most collectible tourism posters — lithographs from the Swiss National Tourist Office and cantonal campaigns that turned the Matterhorn, Engadine valleys, and ski resorts into household icons across Europe. The Matterhorn itself straddles the Swiss–Italian border near Zermatt and remains among the most photographed peaks on earth; mid-century graphic artists reduced it to triangles and bold colour blocks long before minimal wall art became an interior trend.

Updated 14 Jun 2026