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Ladies Christmas Drinks

Greetings Card
2006 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Portfolio (publisher)
Vine, Christopher (designer)
Place of origin
Australia (designed)

This Christmas card was designed by Australian homewares, accessories and stationery designer Christopher Vine and published in Europe by Portfolio. Vine's trademark 'retro-chic' motifs are combined with a Christmas palette of red and green and embellished with 'encapsulated flitter' - the trade term for a recently-developed commercial process for printing areas of synthetic glitter flakes suspended in varnish.

Object details

Categories
Fashion
Christmas
Greeting Cards
Object type
Greetings card
TitleLadies Christmas Drinks (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithography and encapsulated 'flitter' (printed areas of glitter suspended in varnish) on card.
Brief description
Christmas card by Christopher Vine, 2006.
Physical description
Square folded (left hand edge) card with colour (predominantly red, green and black) printed image running across front and back depicting fashionable women in c.1950 dress (embellished with areas of green and red glitter) and a waiter serving drinks, against an urban background (seen through wall-length windows) printed in green and black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16cm
  • Folded width: 16cm
  • Open width: 32cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • Christopher Vine © (Lettered in white within the design)
  • HAPPY CHRISTMAS (Lettered in red within the design)
  • CVD (logo) / Christopher Vine Design / AUSTRALIA (Printed in red and white on the back)
  • Christopher Vine is an award wining artist. / His passion for colour and contemporary designs / give a stylish edge to his work. (Printed in red on the back)
  • XD003 / Ladies Christmas Drinks / © Christopher Vine 2006 / This card is blank inside / Published in Europe by Portfolio / London W10 Tel: 020 8960 3051 (On the back, reversed out in white)
  • PRICE CODE JJ / (barcode) / 5 030453 413039 (Printed in black on the back)
  • to Sir John / wishing you a great / holiday / once again many / thanks for the / generous bonus / Jerry (Inside front, handwritten in blue ink)
Credit line
Given by Lady Ritblat
Subjects depicted
Fashion
Clothes
Aeroplanes
Buses
Multistory Buildings
Bridges
Rivers
Cocktail Shakers
Bottles
Glasses
Accessories
Summary
This Christmas card was designed by Australian homewares, accessories and stationery designer Christopher Vine and published in Europe by Portfolio. Vine's trademark 'retro-chic' motifs are combined with a Christmas palette of red and green and embellished with 'encapsulated flitter' - the trade term for a recently-developed commercial process for printing areas of synthetic glitter flakes suspended in varnish.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.262-2009

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Record createdSeptember 15, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1172272/ladies-christmas-drinks-greetings-card-vine-christopher/
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