Issue of the commemorative souvenir sheet EXPO 2015 MILANO
The World Exhibition 2015 with its theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life” is focused on the key issues of sustainable development. It intends to become a global opportunity for presentation and comparison of traditional and innovative approaches to food production. The central idea is how to guarantee enough quality and harmless food and water resources for the entire world population.
The World Exhibition will take place on an area larger than one square kilometre on the 1st May – the 31st October, 2015 in the presence of about 130 exhibitors from around the world. The Expo 2015 exhibition grounds will be located northwest of Milan, between the towns of Pero and Rho.
The construction of the Czech pavilion for the World Exhibition was started in mid-August 2014. The pavilion is based on a modular structure that is easy to dismantle and transfer and use again after the end of the exhibition. The designers intend to use the pavilion after the end of the exhibition as a material for the construction of a kindergarten.
The pavilion should also include a swimming pool as a symbol of the strong tradition of the Czech spa industry as well as the age-old yearning of the Czech people for the sea. Visitors will receive a swimsuit with printed information on it instead of standard information leaflets. This is meant as another environmental measure because it eliminates paper waste due to leaflets that will soon lose their function, while the swimsuit can continue to be used for several years after the end of the exhibition. Following the exhibition, the pool structure will be moved to Prague to revive a part of the banks of the Vltava river and thereby contribute to the attractiveness of the public space of the city.
The effort to create a solution that will be used even after the exhibition is based on the history of the Czech pavilion for the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels, which became a unique and rare element in the mosaic of notable modern buildings in Prague.
The author of the graphic arrangement of the issue is the academic painter and graphic artist Adam Hoffmeister, the engravings of the envelope FDC are the work of the graphic artist and engraver Bohumil Šneider.
The stamp sized 50 x 40 mm has been printed by the Post Printing House in Prague by multicoloured offset in souvenir sheets of 1 pc.
There will be one First Day Cover incl. commemorative cancellation. In the picture part of the cover is a drawing of the Duomo di Milano.The cachet is based on a motif of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing The Vitruvian Man and bears the text: Praha, 18. 3. 2015
The stamp is valid from 18th March, 2015.
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Issue of the commemorative souvenir sheet EXPO 2015 MILANO
Date of issue: 18th March, 2015
Graphic arrangement: Adam Hoffmeister
Engravings of the FDC: Bohumil Šneider
Size of the stamp: 50 x 40 mm
Face value: 25 CZK
Method of the printing of the stamp: multicoloured offset
Method of the printing of the FDC: recess print from flat plates in black-grey
Subject of the stamp and s/s: On the stamp is a combination of the Expo Milano 2015 logo and a photograph of Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco The Last Supper; the background of the miniature sheet corresponds with the exhibition logo and bears the date of the 1st May – the 31st October.
Number of the FDCs: 1 pc
Subject of the FDC: a drawing of the Duomo di Milano
Editor: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
Producer: Post Printing House, Ortenovo nám. 16, CZ-170 04 Praha 7
Supplier: PostFila, Export Department, Ortenovo nám. 16, CZ-170 24 Praha 7
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