Warmly recommended: State Department Store ’We warmly recommend: State Department Store’ – commercial poster from the 1950s. Its designer is unknown. The poster was an advertisement for the State Department Stores. They were a nationalized chain in the socialist era, founded in 1949. These stores had a different system from those shopping centres known today, as they didn't have numerous little shops of different brands. Instead, State Department Stores functioned as big economic unities and th