Idées 2, Plate 12

Twelfth 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 three designs with semi-abstract floral and natural motifs executed with shades of green and blue. The first design is made up of diagonal strips of alternating bundles of roses and bundles of leaves leaves, outlined with white, blue and bluish-green, the leaves also rendered with white, over vertical strips of fragments of circles filled with pastures colored with bright gray and with bluish-green and white accents, outlined with blue and bluish-green, separated by white stripes bordered with blue, over a dark brown ground. The second design is made up of large lighr gray lozenges with semi-abstract pongs, colored with a darker shade of gray and bluish-green, with brown leaves and large stylized flowers with black and blue petals, and floating leaves outlined with light green and with a stylized flower, colored with white and gray, standing on them. The third design is made up of a large bundle of semi-abstract leaves, outlined with black, and semi-abstract flowers, colored with gray and outlined with bright orange, over a bakground with overlapping scales, colored with gray and ourlined with blue, under a brown sky, partially covered by a semi-abstract bush executed with bluish-green and with blue scrolling outlines.