Exclusive box sets of 2012 Olympic prints

Since 1912, it has been traditional for the Olympic host city to commission posters to celebrate the games. If you missed out on tickets to the London games this year, you still have a chance to be a part of history thanks to ACHICA, the members only luxury online lifestyle store.

Olympic Prints: 'Swimming,' Howard Hodgkin; 'lOndOn 2012,' Rachel Whiteread; 'Divers,' Anthea Hamilton. 

This year, the Olympic Committee have commissioned 12 beautiful artworks to commemorate the games and have produced a collection of limited edition box sets of the prints, only 2,012 in total. ACHICA have obtained 600 of these box sets and are offering them exclusively to its members for £85.

Paralympic Prints: 'Birch,' Tracey Emin; 'Big Ben 2012,' Sarah Morris; 'Capital' Gary Hume.

There are prints to celebrate both the Olympic and Paralympic games by top British artists including Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Martin Creed and Howard Hodgkin. All are printed on (H)30x(w)30cm, 250 gsm archive paper and come in a classic black and gold hinged collector’s box. Plus, each box is individually numbered and comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity along with a booklet, ‘Behind the Art’ which provides background on each piece of work.

ABOVE: The limited edition London 2012 Olympic print box set, £85, ACHICA.

Already highly covetable, the boxes will certainly only increase in value over the years, so they make a great investment piece as well as a fantastic memento of the London Olympics.

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BY LAURA ARMSTRONG
JANUARY 2012