Stick No Bills® Global Fine Art Printworks & Poster Gallery at Imprenta Nueva Balear is now ‘Room 99’ in the Museum of Tourism, highlighting its unique collection of vintage travel destination marketing posters displayed within the oldest functioning printworks in the city.
Stick No Bills® CEO Meg Gage Williams says, “We are elated our Global Printworks has joined this fast growing network of fascinating, diverse and unique entities that speak to their sense of place and their vital role in the way they have served to attract outsiders to experience the best of their own local communities.”
Belén Aguiló, fourth-generation of the Imprenta Nueva Balear adds, “We are proud to continue to function in the oldest printworks in the city, and to have our history and heritage celebrated in this way is very special. Our family has lived the changes travel has brought to the Balearics, so ours is a unique story, but one that also reflects the history of Mallorca.”
Located in the heart of the city’s commercial district within a historic building that stretches all the way along the north side of El Corte Inglés, the beautifully preserved and fully operational Imprenta has been active since 1913 and run over four generations by the Aguiló family. Their Heidelberg Minerva and Plano-cylindrical press, along with the workshop’s spectacular jewel, the 12-ton Albert Frankenthal Plano-cylindrical press – dating back to 1913 – are still capable of creating all types of prints. Combining the latest technology with artisanal techniques, visitors experience this as a living, working printworks and gallery in constant motion.
Stepping into the Stick No Bills® Global Printworks at the Imprenta Nueva Balear is to be transported back through the last century of Mallorca’s history. The collection includes prints produced on site by the Aguiló family over four generations to advertise cultural and sporting events, fiestas and nightclubs on the island. Many of these original, vintage prints, now remastered and available for sale in a variety of sizes and qualities are now getting a second lease of life as both mallorquines and tourists alike delight in their catalogue through the island’s past. This cultural heritage blends seamlessly with the Stick No Bills® collection of global, licensed and officially authorised destination marketing posters produced by the greatest travel brands of the 20th Century including Pan Am, British Airways, Lufthansa, Panagra, Braniff International and the Fomento de Turismo de Mallorca. There is quite simply the pictorial representation of the history of tourism from its very inception, and through these collections we can see how travel and tourism have developed and grown from their very earliest beginnings.
Today, the Stick No Bills® Global Printworks at the Imprenta Nueva Balear represents a shared passion for curating and promoting true, human artistic and design legacies from the past for the future. We look forward to welcoming you to Room 99 very soon.
