Hong Kong Travel Poster: The Riviera of the Orient by S.D. PanaioTaku staffordshire home to the UNESCO World

home to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Albi Cathedral

it caters to anyone seeking a connection with the tranquility of nature

Whipps Cross

A veil of golden yellow infuses the sky and touches the stonework

Otis Shepard was among the most influential American graphic designers of the 1930s

Hong Kong Travel Poster: The Riviera of the Orient by S.D. PanaioTaku staffordshire home to the UNESCO WorldHong Kong. The Riviera of the orient by S. D. PanaioTaku is a luminous Art Deco travel poster celebrating the citys harbor front glamour. Framed by a stately clock tower and a sweep of water under a velvet night sky, the composition distills early 20thcentury wanderlust into a single, sophisticated image. The phrase Riviera of the Orient captures how Hong Kong marketed itself in the interwar years: cosmopolitan, seaside, and irresistibly modernwhere