China Clipper Over the Royal Hawaiian

China Clipper Over the Royal Hawaiian
2025

China Clipper Over the Royal Hawaiian imagines two icons of Hawaiʻi’s golden age of travel sharing the Waikīkī skyline: Pan American Airways’ legendary China Clipper flying above the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

The arrival of Pan Am’s transpacific flying boats in the 1930s helped usher Hawaiʻi into a new era of international travel, while the Royal Hawaiian—opened in 1927 and instantly recognizable for its pink façade—embodied the romance and glamour of Waikīkī tourism. Together, they evoke a moment when reaching Hawaiʻi was still an event unto itself.

Rendered through Solario’s nostalgic, print-inspired visual language, the piece draws on the color, texture, and idealized imagery of vintage travel advertising while remaining distinctly contemporary—a portrait of Hawaiʻi as both a real place and an enduring destination of the imagination.

China Clipper Over the Royal Hawaiian
Waikīkī · Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
2025

Museum-quality giclée print on archival velvet fine art paper, presented with a pure white mat and individually hand-signed by Solario.