Studio d'Arts Décoratifs, 4e Série, Pl. 6, Couleurs cachemires. – Fleurs d’Etang. – Marguerites. – Symphonie printanière. – Tiges se reflétant dans l’eau.

Designed by Hennequin-Rêveur French
Published by Armand Guérinet French

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Sixth plate of the fourth series of pochoir pattern books, titled "Studio d'arts décoratifs: Motifs inédits pour toutes Industries d'Art" (Studio of Decorative Arts: Novel Motifs for all Art Industries, with Art Deco textile designs created by Hennequin-Rêveur and published in Paris by Armand Guérinet, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The series consists of a title page with index and 12 plates with designs numbered 1-12, each with numerous designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric motifs, birds and flowers, all typical of the Art Deco style, which was characterized by its eclecticism, drawing from a variety of sources that sought to combine old European design traditions with the modern style diffused by avant-garde art, while also reflecting the romantic fascination with early Egyptian and Meso-American "exotic" cultures promoted by archaeological discoveries of the times.

This plate consists of five designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design is made up of purple clouds outlined with black intermittent lines filled with circles colored with green, red and yellow, some of them linked by black lines, over an abstract floral pattern colored with green, purple, yellow and red, over which stand out interlacing intermittent black-and-white lines and black hatches. The second design is made up of vertical undulating strips of small flowers colored with gray and outlined with white, separated by undulating stripes colored with gray and outlined with yellow and white, over a light purple ground. The third design is made up of semi-abstract daisies colored with white and gray or with aquamarine and green, and fragments of circles filled with flowers, lozenges, triangles and other geometric motifs, colored with aquamarine, green, light brown, purple and white, over a light brown ground. The fourth design is made up of semi-abstract spring symphonies executed with red, pink, orange, green and black over a violet ground. The last design consists of a semi-abstract pattern of interlacing branches colored with maroon and semi-abstract flowers colored with shades of purple, partially covered by abstract motifs colored with aquamarine, to create a water-reflection effect.

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