We love art that is timeless, made just for your shop.

We have been making beautiful 100% cotton note cards and posters since 1964. Our speciality is building collections made just for your shop, hotel or cafe complete with your branding printed on the back.

Our Getty Museum Card Collection

Archivea operates its own printing studio in Lugano, Switzerland.

Visit us anytime, have a coffee! We love talking about art.

Via Giulio Vicari 10, Lugano 6900 a few meters from the lake in Lugano.

Master Printer

Archivea GmbH is very proud that Sabine Catteneo is our Fine Art Printer. Beneath her guidance our Lugano studio produces remarkable quality art printing. Thanks to her, our collectors include celebrities and photographic aficionados around the world.

The studio is an atelier at heart with a history of printmaking since 1964 so focus on quality is everything to us.

Here you see Sabine preparing canvas for our client The Ford Motor Company archives.

Yes we live and breath art but we are also fans of classic motorsports!

History of The Archivea Guild

The Archivea Guild assists non-profit museums and libraries with their educational mission by sharing their images with the world. Archivea GmbH as a publisher helps to offset archiving costs by paying these museums and libraries royalties for publishing.

Our art publishing centered lineage was started by Jack Weedn in California in 1955 when he began a small aerial photography publishing studio.

In 1959, his wife, Flavia Weedn began her lifelong career in painting and writing. Flavia and Jack began the art selling and publishing/galleries on PCH in Laguna Beach and at the Disneyland Hotel in 1960's. Etchings and serigraphs were a staple in our California studios.

In the 1980s Flavia artwork was introduced to Switzerland by ARS Edition in Zug. By 1990 Flavia artwork was stocked in more than 30,000 retail locations across the globe.

The Flavia Company, Inc. transformed and became Archivea GmbH in 2009 when it was established in Zug, Switzerland. In 2018 it moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

In 2025 Archivea GmbH and Archivea Lda of Portugal became members of The Archivea Guild, A Swiss Verein formed in 2012.

The Guild's public benefit mission is to keep historical imagery from around the world in the public eye. Further its mission is to educate the public about historical artists and creators via ongoing broadcasting and publishing efforts.

The Archivea Guild's member entities now serve The Getty Museum, The New York Public Library, The Claudio Bravo Collection, The Ford Motor Company, The Henry Ford Museums, The Boeing Company, The Vintage Arte Archive and the Flavia archive among many others.

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All commercial activities are conducted by Archivea GmbH and Archivea Lda.

"We hope you enjoy the fruits of three generations of art publishing and advocacy"

Richard Weedn