From Bremen in 1857 to the Blue Riband in 1897 to two world wars and erasure. The line that pioneered the watercolour menu cover and was destroyed twice.
RMS Olympic 1927: The Last Year of an Art Deco Liner
The 1927 menu programme from White Star Line’s R.M.S. Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic, at the peak of her late-career Art Deco register.
A History of Cunard Line Menus, 1840–1934
Ninety-four years of Cunard menu design in four phases: spare letterpress, heraldic embossed restraint, restrained illustration, and inter-war Art Deco.
The 1928 CGT Carte des Vins: Art Deco’s High Point at Sea
A close design reading of the 1928 Compagnie Générale Transatlantique wine list, among the strongest single design objects in the entire Buttolph archive.