Take Your Prints To The Beach

If you are going on vacation and desperately miss your mobilità prints, this is for you. Or if you just want to show off your sophisticated taste in cocktails together with your favorite islands while catching up on some well deserved rest on the beach. Maybe you are actually on one of the islands featured in the Island prints like Saint Barths, Bora Bora, Capri or Barbados or you want to set the pool bartender straight on how to make a perfekt Mai Tai.

If island life (or even cocktails) isn’t your thing why not have your home country, the country of your dreams, your favorite fika item, a fabulous piece of architecture, the Italian coffee drink of your choice or a Jaguar E-Type printed on the bag. All of the prints sold in the shop can be mixed and used for this high quality tote bag with sturdy canvas, vinyl sides and bottom and leather handles.

By the way, the tote works equally well going to the office or being out shopping.

December 11 – Barbados

The Caribbean island of Barbados in the Lesser Antilles is the most eastern of all Caribbean islands. According to archeological findings the first settlers or visitors to Barbados may have landed on the island in 1600 BC. A more permanent Amerindian settlement was established around the 4th to 7th centuries AD. Barbados was populated by the Kalinago people since the 13th century.

Spanish navigators claimed the island for the Spanish Crown in the 15th century and it first appeared on maps in 1511. After the Spanish the Portuguese took it over in the 1530s until they gave way for the English when they arrived in Barbados in 1625 and later made it into a British colony. Even after the islands declaration of independence in 1966 it was actually part of the British Commonwealth until December 1st 2021 when Barbados transitioned to a republic and thus removed Queen Elizabeth as head of state.

Barbados is also the birthplace of rum. Mount Gay is the oldest operating rum distillery in the world and was founded in 1703. Thanks to its almost perfect conditions for growing sugar cane and the fact that its limestone bedrock is a fantastic filter for rainwater Barbados was almost destined to become a great rum producer. 

Rum aside, Barbados is famous for its green monkeys, flying fish, fish fries and, of course, Rihanna who in November 2021 was named national hero and received the title, the Right Excellent Robyn Rihanna Fenty.

Barbados is the only Caribbean island (and one of only four countries) to have had regular Concorde service. The route from London to Barbados was kept from 1987 until 2003. The flight took only three hours and 45 minutes instead of almost 9 hours.

December 5 – Capri

Just a short boat trip from Naples, and an even shorter one from Sorrento, lies the beautiful island of Capri. Famous for its lemon groves it is overlooking the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. Capri is a must see when traveling the south of Italy. And of course, Emilio Pucci opened up his very first boutique, La Canzone del Mare, in Capri's Marina Piccola in 1951.

Amazing Islands

The first three in a new series of illustrations of the most amazing islands from around the world showing the beautiful patterns of topographic lines.