SCRIBBLED MENU CARD

THE NETHERLANDS EA/NL/0049

If by the end of a dinner, the menu is all scribbled, either the evening was rather boring or it was so inspirational as to trigger myriads of thoughts that could not be held back. Up to each one of us to speculate about which of the two cases this menu card from 1950s Amsterdam refers to. The woman laying on top of a table with birdmen watching over her surrounded by digits, official headings and elegant typography make for a rather peculiar agglomerate of information squeezed in the small space of a piece of paper.

SCRIBBLED MENU CARD

THE NETHERLANDS EA/NL/0049

If by the end of a dinner, the menu is all scribbled, either the evening was rather boring or it was so inspirational as to trigger myriads of thoughts that could not be held back. Up to each one of us to speculate about which of the two cases this menu card from 1950s Amsterdam refers to. The woman laying on top of a table with birdmen watching over her surrounded by digits, official headings and elegant typography make for a rather peculiar agglomerate of information squeezed in the small space of a piece of paper.