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Merchandise: leisure through an Art Deco lens

  • Four square illustrations of magic tricks
    Set of four coasters with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • Art deco illustrations of cafe life
    Set of four magnets with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection: café theme
  • Four illustrations of Art Deco fashions
    Set of four magnets with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection: fashion theme
  • Four illustrations of art deco fashions and cafe life
  • Grand Art Deco Tivoli theatre
    Postcard with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • Art deco illustration of a fashionable woman in front of a cruise ship
    Postcard with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • Six images of magic tricks
    Postcard with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • Green and yellow bold graphic of a cricket player bowling
    Postcard with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • A man in a tuxedo performs a vanishing trick
    Postcard with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection
  • Art deco images of travel, fashion, sport and entertainment
    Set of five postcards with original artwork from State Library Victoria's collection

Collect your own set of rarely seen original illustrations from the Library's collections.

These keepsake 'leisure'-themed postcards, magnets and coasters capture the playful aesthetic of the Art Deco era, when bright young things ushered in a modern age of fashion, travel and pleasure.

Images on these items also feature in the State Library Victoria 2018 diary.

Five postcards
Price: $2 each
Size: 105 x 150 mm
Please note: these are for sale in-store only at Readings.

Set of four coasters
Price: $24.95 per set
Size: 98 x 98 mm

Set of four magnets (two sets available)

Price: $12.95 per set
Size: 40 x 50 mm

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