North America - SwissAir - Vintage Airline Travel Poster by Manfred Bingler c.1964 - Japanese Unryu Rice Paper Art Print (Unframed) 18 x 24 in

Pacifica Island Art uses an environmentally-friendly Unryu Japanese rice paper made by the Awagami Factory in Tokushima, Japan. Unryu, which translates to 'cloud dragon paper' in Japanese, features long strands of kozo fiber and is made from natural mulberry and hemp fibers using traditional Japanese Washi techniques - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Manfred Bingler - Manfred Bingler (1928-1987) was born in Constance in 1928 and died in 1987 in Küsnacht, Switzerland. After studying photography at the ‘Kunstgewerbeschule’ (School of Arts and Crafts) in Zurich from 1948 to 1953, Bingler worked as a photographer for Conzett & Huber and then for Swissair. From 1960 to 1963, he created outstanding posters for Swissair. In 1964, he founded his own studio for commercial photography. Many of his works were published in the magazines ‘DU’ and ‘Annabelle’ and won him national and international prizes in the 1960s and 1970s.