Ok, if you know me, you know I am a sucker for medieval themes and for that reason this is one of my favorite things in the ephemera drawer. I picked this guy a while ago and I don’t know much about the illustrator besides it being signed “Orbeck”. The only other piece of ephemera I can track on the internet is this Vacation home design booklet posted by Victor Underhill and blogged at midcenturymodernist.com (the illustration style doesn’t match but who knows. this is also around the year I found this which dates back to ’08, seems so long ago but whatever…The illustrations are so good though, I love the horses. The simplicity of the geometric shapes is just phenomenal. As usual, our digital age can’t compare to the real deal, this menu features two colors with different varnishes and overprints that are hard to capture on camera but it adds a lot to the piece.
The menu design is from The Knight’s Café by the chef James Friswold. A restaurant by Western International Hotels. No year listed, only the day Wednesday April 21 but I did a fun experiment and found out that April 21st landed on a Wednesday on 1965 and based on the other post found from the 60’s I think it’s safe to say that’s it. So there you go, thanks Google. Enjoy!
