Here we have a space to extoll the beauties and coveting of retro, vintage and general delight in all things of quality, prestige and pre-mass marketing delight...
Some people love tin cans...
Here are some sources that first thrilled and expressed the decoration possibilities of simple home kitchen accessories, for example the Campbells Soup People now support the arts, after their cans were made world famous by Mr Warhol
The desire to dazzle with modernity being started by Alphonse Mucha...
Modern packaging gone wild! Soap, gravy, washing powder, egg, cigarettes, peaches, and of course BEANS.
Warhol was on a roll...
Victorian reproduction of graphic and illustrative works; signs, posters and labels and the printing of these 'lithographs' onto tin and aluminium was one of the first practical applications of this process, the flimsy but light and airtight results being used for tin signs, advertising plaques and finally conserves, pasteurised, treated and dried goods and foods with lasting success. The invention of plastics has not really eclipsed them even now, but that's another story.