Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 2

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, 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.

The second plate of the album presents three different design motifs with semi-abstract natural patterns. The first design presents a large bundle of semi-abstract flowers and leaves executed with bright pink, purple and shades of green over a gray background with brown and black abstract shapes, some of them with horizontal lines or spots to create shadows. Below it are two smaller design motifs: one with abstranct black, light green and brown shapes over a green ground, and another with abstract shapes colored with gray and purple, and decorated with black and pink strokes, over a brown and bright green ground.