Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 3

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 third plate of the album presents six different design motifs, most with semi-abstract bundles with flowers and leaves. Two of the designs present vertical branches with semi-abstract flowers and leaves over a white ground with short strokes of brown, orange, light blue, pink and yellow: the branches and leaves on the first are colored with pink, blue, green and orange, some of them with spots, and in the second they are colored with light blue, orange, green and shades of brown, some of them also with spots. Two other designs are made up of abstract shapes presented in groups, almost looking like abstract trees or exotic flowers, colored with shades of brown, green and gray, and some with small spots of the same colors. Another design presents thin undulating dark brown branches with small, semi-abstract flowers with tan petals and long, undulating gray pistils with white dots, and a large flower in the center with white petals, brown receptacle and orange pistils over a cream ground. The final design in this plate contains a bundle of abstract flowers with pink, maroon, white and green petals over a light blue ground with short horizontal strokes of cream, white and green.