Idées 2, Plate 1

First plate of the second album of a book containing two pochoir pattern albums bound together, titled "Idées 2" (Ideas 2), published ca. 1933 by the Librairie des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and designed by Georges Darcy. The album is composed of one title page and 12 plates, numbered 1-12; the book is bound with blue library binding, with the title printed in gold on paper mounted on the front cover. The designs in the albums are possibly for Art Deco textiles and 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.

The plate contains four designs with semi-abstract floral motifs executed with shades of green and purple. The first design is made up of large fragments of arches, colored with gray and with black grids, fragments of circles containing bunches of leaves, colored with green and outlined with green, flanked by semi-abstract rosettes executed with black and shades of pink, and diagonal semi-abstract trees with silver trunks and large semi-abstract leaves colored with green and outlined with black over a purple ground. The second design consists of a semi-abstract column, colored with shades of green, containing a bundle of semi-abstract rosettes and leaves, colored with purple, black, white, and shades of green, partially illuminated by a silver spotlight, over a purple background with white dots to represent, probably, stars. The fourth design, possibly for a border or ribbon, is made up of a horizontal white stripe flanked, alternatingly, by half semi-abstract rosettes and bundles of semi-abstract flower buds, and branches, colored with black, pink, silver, and shades of green. The final design consists of a semi-abstract insect made up of fragments of circles colored with gray, white, yellow and black over a purple ground.