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This vinyl sticker features a detail from Dutchman/Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London, 1967, by Peter Strausfeld.
In operation from 1931 to 1986, the Academy Cinema was London’s premiere art house movie theater. In 1945, the Academy hired German refugee and artist Peter Strausfeld to create unique advertising posters for its roster of international film screenings. Over three decades, Strausfeld designed hundreds of bold, predominantly single-color linocut compositions with a deceptively simple hand-printed feel. Where mainstream movie posters typically relied on colorful, montage-style interpretations of scenes from a film combined with striking typography, Strausfeld’s posters remain some of the most unique examples of localized cinema advertising in history.
Shot in documentary style, Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London chronicles the counterculture of “Swinging London” in the 1960s and features vignettes with young celebrities, actors, pop-culture icons, Beat-generation writers, and rock bands, including Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. The central figure is based on a photograph of the quintessential Biba Girl, representing the Biba clothing shop in London that defined the Mod era of fashion in the sixties.
Manufactured for Poster House by Busy Beaver Button Co. Measures 4 x 2.75 inches.