Warszawa Neon - 2024

The author of the album - Ilona Karwińska - has spent the last twenty years documenting Warsaw's neon signs created in the post-war period. Many of the illuminated advertisements immortalized in the album have irretrievably disappeared from urban space. Often, the only evidence of their existence are the outlines left on the facades of buildings that they decorated in the past. On the pages of a richly illustrated publication drawings and designs by outstanding artists, graphic designers and architects from the archives of the Warsaw City Hall were published for the first time. They present an extraordinary image of the capital from the 1950s and 1960s.

“I have been carrying out the neon sign documentation project for nearly twenty years. It all started with photos of existing and, unfortunately, irretrievably disappearing neon signs that could be found on the streets of Warsaw. Thanks to the album, a trace of these amazing light advertisements that could not be saved in the Neon Museum is preserved. This is a second edition publication of the Neon Museum, full of original documentation and projects that are published here for the first time.” Ilona Karwińska

All Photographs by Ilona Karwińska of Cold War Era Neon signs from Warsaw (2005-2024). Archival images and original blueprints from NAC, Forum Polska, Warsaw City Archives, Neon Muzeum archive. Available in the museum gift shop or Buy Here online.

Pages: 224 
Format: Soft Cover (soft touch) 
Size: 285mm x 235mm 
Language: Polish/English 
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Second Edition 
Wszelkie prawa zastrzeżone. All rights reserved. This edition © 2024 
Neon Muzeum 
www.neonmuzeum.org 
ISBN: 978-83-943184-0-6 
Wydawca/Published by: Neon Muzeum 
ul. Mińska 25b/34 03-804 Warsaw