Czech matchbox designs inspire An Chen’s angular still-life illustrations

Matchbox label - Stylized Figures Of Women Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1420247209

Matchbox label - Stylized Design Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1405974456

Matchbox label - Stylized Abstract Face Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1613202404

Matchbox label - Geometric Design Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1474006852

Matchbox label - Geometric Tree and Building - Czechoslovakia (circa 1920s) - MBP1420175469

Matchbox label - Two Silhouetted Figures Interacting Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1405968416

Zara Picken’s archive of modernist illustrated ephemera is a window into a defining creative era

Matchbox label - Illustration Of A Shovel - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1627262523

Matchbox label - Abstract Faces - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1420025989

Matchbox label - Stylized Figure Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1406786282

Matchbox label - Geometric Shapes - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1406805484

Matchbox label - Stylized House Czechoslovakia Mid-Century - Czechoslovakia (circa 1940s) - MBP1420176559