Since its founding in 1831, Nihonbashi Takashimaya has been a people-centered department store that enhanced customers’ expectations on service and hospitality while closely mastering traditional manners and customs.
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For over a hundred years Nations around the world have honoured people, events, and significant moments through commemorative stamps. Unlike other regular postage stamps (known as definitives), commemorative stamps are printed only once and are allowed to go out of circulation as their supply is used up. Which brings us some 161 Years after March 23, 1857 when Elisha Otis' 1st Elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
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Equipping the Eiffel Tower with safe passenger lifts was a major concern of the government commission overseeing the Paris Exposition. Although some visitors could be expected to climb to the first level, or even the second, lifts clearly had to be the main means of ascent.
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Originally opened in 1979, the Atrium on Bay features OTIS panoramic traction elevators overlooking a 14 storey atrium. The building takes up most of the block bounded by Yonge, Dundas, Bay, and Edward Streets in Toronto's Commercial heart, just north of the Eaton Centre.
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The Canadian Otis Elevator Company, a subsidiary of the Otis Elevator Company of New York, started in a small factory in Hamilton, ON in 1902. Three years later, it merged with the sizable Fensom elevator works of Toronto to become the Otis-Fensom Elevator Company.
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Here are twenty print ads by the Otis Elevator Company that are creatively brilliant. They have a solid concept topped off with great design which to date embody the brilliance of this North American company.
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