Gift Guide

A good print is an easy gift to give and a hard one to get wrong: it is personal without being perishable, and it arrives ready to hang. This guide groups our collections by the person you are shopping for. Every Vintage Print Project print is made to order, so please allow 5 to 12 business days for delivery and order with a little time to spare.

Start with the proven favorites

If you know their taste only in outline, begin with our Best Sellers. These are the prints our customers order most, led by the 1930s New York fire safety poster, the Italian cat portrait, and the green and blue wave textile from Kyoto. Standard house prints start at $34.50 unframed.

For animal lovers

Our Vintage Animal Prints include a menagerie of portraits drawn in the language of Italy's classic aperitivo posters: a self possessed cat, a solemn cow, cougars, foxes, and a pigeon with more dignity than most people. They suit anyone whose home already revolves around an animal.

For travelers and map lovers

The Vintage Map Prints collection gathers city and regional maps, including the Greenhouse Hotel line of restored mid century American city maps. A map of a hometown, a honeymoon city, or a place someone has always meant to visit is one of the most personal gifts in the catalog.

For New Yorkers

New York City Vintage Posters covers WPA era safety posters, mid century city scenes, and the 1939 World's Fair fruit store. It is the right shelf for anyone who has lived in the city, left the city, or argues about the city.

For the design minded

Two collections suit people who notice pattern and geometry. Vintage Spanish Art Deco holds the bold covers of La Farsa, Madrid's weekly zarzuela booklets of the 1920s; you can read the story behind them in our La Farsa article. Japanese Vintage Prints & Posters holds the Shima Shima textile patterns published in Kyoto in 1906, quiet and architectural on a wall.

For the kitchen and the home bar

Vintage Advertising Posters & Illustrations is full of food, drink, and product art from the golden age of the poster, including the 1922 Maccheroni poster that hangs in more kitchens than we can count.

For the collector

Vintage Print Exclusives are different from everything else we sell: original physical pieces, including books, comics, and ephemera, each one the actual object described on its page. When one sells, it is gone, which makes it the right gift for someone who collects rather than decorates.

Gift cards

When the wall is theirs to choose, a Vintage Print Project gift card lets them pick the artwork, the size, and the frame themselves. Gift cards come in $25, $50, $100, and $200 amounts and are delivered by email.

Not sure where to start?

Three reliable moves: pick the best seller that matches their city or their animal, choose the framed option so it arrives ready to hang, or send a gift card and let them browse. If the question is really about framing, our Framing Guide covers finishes, sizes, and how the framed prints arrive. Many prints include free shipping, confirmed at checkout where it applies. Still deciding? Write to support@vintageprintproject.com and tell us about the person; we are happy to suggest.