Plate 14 from "Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Editions d'Art Charles Moreau French
Not on view
Design with groups of one large vertical undulating stripe, colored with purple and with two thinner stripes, colored with orange and outlined with light purple, above which stand curved triangular figures rendered with light purple and horizontal brown stripes and with offsetting brown thorns to one side and the bottom, over a background executed with different shades of brown and light purple.
The design is part of a pochoir pattern book, titled "Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux" (Prisms: 40 Plates of Designs and New Colors), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by Éditions d’Art Charles Moreau, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 40 plates numbered 1-40, each with one design, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are 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.