These ski art playing cards Piatnik guarantee hours of card fun during the winter sports holiday. After skiing or after après-ski, play the best card games for the winter sports holiday in your Airbnb, hotel, guest house or apartment. Let's go skiing!
Piatnik has been making one of the best brand cards in the playing card factory in Vienna, Austria since 1824. This also applies to these ski playing cards from Piatnik. Skiing for fun, a British invention, started in the 19th century in Austria and the Swiss Alps. The fashion spread across Europe, and to the USA and Canada. Soon tourist were being seduced by posters designed by great graphic artist - like Holwein, Broders and Mauer. On the back of these ski art playing cards is an artwork from 1936 by the American artist Sascha Maurer called: "Let's go skiing!". The classic posters in this pack celebrate the drama of skiing on spectacular, uncluttered mountains when speed was a thrilling novelty.
This winter sports pack of cards, the Ski Art playing cards Piatnik, have 54 individually illustrated playing cards in poker size made of cardboard including 2 Jokers.