‘TWA is pleased to present our new Great Destinations Series. Through an artist’s vision we wish to share with our passengers the spirit and aura of some of the Great Destinations that TWA serves. Rather than depict famous landmarks, we have chosen scenes that we think typify the lifestyle, the feel for a city or country that no monument can convey. We hope you will sense the excitement as we present more Great Destinations in the future.’

TWA was famous for employing talented artists to illustrate inflight menus and in the 1980s the company embarked on its ‘Great Destinations’ theme with this charming painting of the metro station by Paris’s Jardin des Tuileries.

The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the French Revolution.

This TWA menu art, showing a metro station many Parisians and visitors to Paris see in their daily lives, is one of many in our collection.

Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline that existed from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with Ford Trimotors. With American, United, and Eastern, it was one of the ‘Big Four’ domestic airlines in the United States.