Cocktail and bar posters: styling a home bar corner

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From classics to tropical drinks

The catalog blends 2 moods: classic cocktails (like the pink Cosmopolitan, surrounded by raspberries and lime slices) done in a 1950s American retro style, and tropical drinks, with palm trees and coconuts.

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Where to hang a cocktail poster

A bar corner, a kitchen open to the living room, or a space set aside for drinks with friends are the most natural spots for this kind of poster. The A3 size suits most walls; for a smaller bar corner, an A4 is still enough above a bottle shelf.

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Pairing several bar posters

To put together a small wall around a bar, mixing an Art Deco scene with a tropical mood works if the frames stay identical, which unifies different drawing styles.

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Classic cocktails by name, beyond the Cosmopolitan

The Cosmopolitan is only one of the classic cocktails in the cocktail posters collection. Margarita, Old Fashioned, Mai Tai and a red cocktail facing the Empire State Building are in there too, each with its own style and era, so you can vary the mood of a bar corner rather than repeat the same image.

Uptown Hour, a cocktail facing the Empire State Building

The Uptown Hour poster sets a red cherry cocktail on a windowsill, between 2 red curtains, facing the Empire State Building and the Manhattan skyscrapers at night. Its midnight blue and golden towers recall the Art Deco of the 1930s, earlier than the 1950s style already mentioned for the Cosmopolitan.

Margarita, Old Fashioned and Mai Tai, 3 classics of the 1950s

The margarita poster places the salt-rimmed glass on a Mexican cantina square in turquoise and pink tones, the Old Fashioned poster, in landscape format, stays in warm hues with its amber bottles on a wooden bar, and the Mai Tai poster, also in landscape, shows a waiter in a flowered shirt setting the cocktail down on a beach table facing a sailboat, in the spirit of 1950s tiki bars.

Blue Lagoon and Tiki Bar, the tropical side

On the tropical side already mentioned in the article, the Blue Lagoon poster raises a tall blue glass with a cherry in front of a lagoon where 2 sunbathers soak up the sun, and the Tiki Bar poster shows a beach hut with carved masks under the palm trees, at the water’s edge, in warm and turquoise tones.

Uptown Hour for a more understated setting

The midnight blue and golden towers of the Uptown Hour poster suit a bar corner that is more understated than the tropical visuals, for example near a bottle shelf with no other colorful decor around it.

Miami, a more recent touch among the classics

The Miami poster stands apart from the 2 eras already mentioned: in landscape format, it shows the Art Deco hotels of Ocean Drive under a pink sky, with palm trees and strollers, in pastels that evoke the Miami of the 1980s. It lets you add a later touch among posters from the 1920s or 1950s.

Mai Tai, Tiki Bar and Blue Lagoon, a cohesive tropical trio

These 3 posters share the same world of tiki bars and tropical drinks from the 1950s-1960s: pairing them together, rather than with an urban cocktail like Uptown Hour, keeps a single visual thread on the same wall.