Lost Teams print
First Campionissimo Print, Vintage Cycling Poster, Retro Italy Wall Art, Black and White Print
About the print
— THE STORY —
Costante Girardengo was the first to be called Campionissimo, and for Italy in the Twenties he was practically a state institution: express trains made unscheduled stops at Novi Ligure in his honour. Six Milano-Sanremo, nine national championships, a supremacy so long it seemed a natural order. Small, sharp, unbeatable on the Riviera roads, he turned cycling from a pastime into a national passion, paving the road for Binda and Coppi. Around his friendship with the bandit Sante Pollastri, a schoolmate of his youth, ballads and legends grew: the champion and the outlaw, twin destinies gone opposite ways. Before him, racers existed. After him, Italy had idols.
Print details
- Premium Matte paper, 200 gsm
- Europe: A3 (297 × 420 mm) — fits standard European frames
- US: 12 × 18 in (30.5 × 45.7 cm) — fits standard US frames
Shipping / frame info
- Printed and shipped from within your region
- FRAME NOT INCLUDED
There is a moment almost all of us lived through, and almost nobody photographed: an older person telling you about a match you never saw. Lost Teams tells the stories of teams and champions who no longer exist, and what they left behind.
Every print begins with a true fact: a number that looks like a misprint and is not.
Hang it. One day someone will ask you what it is, and you will know where to begin.