Chi-Namel: a finish for everything about the home.
This is a trade booklet of the Ohio Varnish Company, issued around 1900 in the United States, promoting Chi-Namel enamel paint to householders and retailers. The illustrations are flat, bright, storybook-style scenes of a child painting furniture, a car and a room, with a colour swatch card showing finish shades such as gray, auto brown, yellow and vermilion. A designer could draw on the simple outlined figures, the warm primary palette, and the clean swatch layout for vintage advertising work.
