Ticino – Gandria

A wonderful Original Travel Poster by the father of the Ticino poster, Daniele Buzzi: What a warmth radiating from the façades of Gandria on the shores of Lake Lugano, bathed in sunset – a village that has somehow managed to remain comparatively authentic, yet spared from overtourism.

Buzzi (1890 – 1974) was originally an engineer, trained in Winterthur, who initially worked for Oerlikon-Bührle before being involved in the first Dixence dam project for the electricity company of western Switzerland (which also explains why a lot of his Ticino posters were printed in the Romandy). As a completely self-taught artist, his affinity for technology earned him his first commission: in the mid-1920s, the Federal Railways entrusted him with the design of two posters advertising the completed electrification of the Gotthard and Simplon lines – the start of a series of around fifty posters that accompanied the initially slowly emerging, but then rapidly developing tourism in his home canton until the 1960s.

maybe of interest as well:

Lugano | Ticino – Southern Switzerland