The Champagne Lady – SWE

The Champagne Lady – SWE

Originally published 1939
The Champagne Lady – SWE

This poster was created for the Olympic games that were supposed to be held in 1940 (due to the war the games were postponed until 1952). This is the Swedish language version of the poster. Jorma Suhonen is one of Finland’s greatest poster masters and a legend in the Finnish advertisement industry. He was one of the men behind the influential ad agency SEK.

This poster also triggered the whole Come to Finland book project. When author Magnus Londen saw the poster many years ago in an antiquarian book shop window in Helsinki he was spellbound. The stylish lady, the glamourous life, the champagne! The poster had everything Helsinki should have!

Soon the Come to Finland poster hunters were digging deep into dusty archives and the rest is history.
That particular poster is also the only original print of the Champagne Lady that the poster hunters have located during their long search – and nowadays it’s of course a part of our collection.

Check out over 200 classic Finnish travel posters and read more about all the great Finnish poster artists in the digital version of our book ”Come to Finland” (found in three different editions; in English, French and German). After enjoying the posters a while we believe you are ready to order the real thing: the printed coffee table book.

GOTTA HAVE! GOTTA READ!