Pipe Pillows
Description: Celebrate the hard work of the trade with this detailed skeleton plumber design. Featuring a cool, smoking skeleton character using a wrench to repair a burst water pipe, this graphic blends retro cartoon aesthetics with professional humor. Perfect for plumbers, pipefitters, and HVAC technicians who love dark humor or vintage macabre art. A great gift idea for Father's Day, birthdays, or appreciation for the tradespeople in your life who get the job done no matter what.
Description: This funny plumber graphic features a retro vintage distressed sunset with a hilarious Bigfoot silhouette carrying a large pipe wrench. Perfect for journeyman plumbers, professional pipefitters, and handymen who love sasquatch mythology and blue collar tradesman art. A great pick for trade school graduation, fathers day, or everyday casual wear on the job site.
Description: One of Magritte's most common artistic devices was the use of objects to hide what lies behind them. For example, in The Son of Man (1964) an apple hides the face of a man wearing a bowler hat, and in The Pleasure Principle (1937) a bright flash likewise obscures a face. In The Human Condition, the cover-up appears in the form of a painting within a painting. Magritte had this to say of his 1933 work: "In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room. For the spectator, it was both inside the room within the painting and outside in the real landscape."
Description: Expanded high-resolution version. Not to be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite) is a painting created by Rene Magritte in 1937. This painting was commissioned by poet and Magritte patron Edward James and is considered a portrait of James although James' face is not depicted. This painting was one of three produced by Magritte for the ballroom of James' London home. The work depicts a man standing in front of a mirror, but whereas the book on the mantelpiece is reflected correctly, the man can see only the back of his head.
Description: A monochromatic woodcut-style portrayal of a stern-faced captain wearing a peaked cap adorned with an anchor emblem. He has a full beard and mustache, and is smoking a pipe with visible smoke plumes. The text 'MOTOR BOAT' is arched above his head, and 'CAPTAIN' is centered below. The background is black.
Description: Silent films date back to the 1830s, and better theaters accompanied them with live music and effects provided by pipe organs. When sound films came arrived in the 1920s, theaters removed the pipe organs in favor of new sound equipment. In the '60s, someone decided to put one of these organs into a Bay Area pizza restaurant, and it was a hit. Bill Breuer like the concept and opened his first restaurant, Pizza and Pipes, in Santa Clara, California in 1962, choosing the biggest pipe organ he could find. A decade later, he opened a second location in Seattle, eventually opening in Tacoma and Bellevue. Other restaurateurs opened their own, and in the '70s and ’80s, pipe organ music could be heard in more than 100 pizzerias across the country!
