The David Langone Gallery represents the Re' Society Collections. These are recreations of the finest of Golden Age posters and other fine artworks, produced in exactly the same way as their antique ancestors - slowly, painstakingly, and with an eye for perfection. Hands on. And using rare equipment like our genuine 19th-century lithography presses, among the few remaining in the world.

The results are unlike anything else available today. Our stunning limited-edition vintage-poster recreations shimmer with rich, vibrant color, subtle texture, and crisp, clean line. Experts agree: No modern-day photomechanical method comes close to our "low-tech," genuine direct-lithography process.

And unlike antique posters, the David Langone Gallery Collections are free from both the ravages of time and the astronomical prices typically racked up at auctions. Browse through the David Langone Gallery Collections, and visit another time and place. You're sure to discover a bit of the past to bring back to the future with you.

All the fine-art lithographs in the David Langone Gallery Collections are produced at the prestigious S2 Atelier in New York City, using traditional hands-on lithography techniques.

When the S2 Art Group, parent company of the Atelier, set out to bring true quality lithography back to the art world - a world that had sadly come to accept the compromised quality of fast, high-tech reproduction - they knew no ordinary presses would do. They searched the world to find the last remaining old-world presses capable of producing genuine low-tech, hand-pulled, fine art lithographs. These extremely rare presses are the very same ones that created, over 100 years ago, what we now know and love as "vintage" posters. When it comes to producing truly high-quality artworks, no modern-day printing technology can touch them.

Then S2 searched the world again to assemble a team of hands-on craftsmen with the specialized skills to run those ancient presses. The S2 Atelier is now the largest fine-art lithography atelier in the world. In this 11,000-square-foot facility, world-renowned artisans and skilled artists create each edition using painstaking, hands-on techniques.

S2 chromist Jean-Pierre Remond hand-draws a plate to be used in printing. A separate hand-drawn plate must be created for each color in the final lithograph. When the edition is complete, the plates are destroyed.

Master artisans slowly hand-pull each impression on one of the Atelier's rare 19th-century lithography presses. The impressions are made one color at a time using the finest quality inks, and must be pulled in perfect registration.

The lithographs are examined closely after each impression, and finally are hand-numbered by the S2 curating department.