Formes et Couleurs, Planche 1

First plate of pochoir pattern book with loose leaves titled "Formes et Couleurs: Vingt Planches en Couleurs Contenant Soixante-sept Motifs Décoratifs" (Forms and Colors: Twenty Colored Plates Containing Sixty-Seven Decorative Motifs), designed by Auguste H. Thomas and edited by Albert Lévy, published in Paris by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts around 1930. The album is composed of one title page and 20 plates with several designs, numbered 1-20. The plates are stored inside a reconstructed black portfolio with title pochoir label on the front cover. The designs in the album are possibly for 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 consists of three designs with semi-abstract natural motifs executed with bright colores. The first design consists of a basket made up of a grid with bright green lines, holding semi-abstract leaves, colored with burgundy and black stripes, semi abstract rosettes, colored with pink and purples, and black scrolling branches with small, round green flowers buds, over a bluish-green ground, and a budrgundy frame. The decond design is made up of a large stylized raindeer, colored with shades of orange and cream, surrounded by bushes with stylized leaves, executed with shades of blue, green, and orange, over a mint-green ground with lavender clouds. The third design is made up of cream vases of different forms with purple stripes, holding semi-abstract bundles of small, round flowers, and leaves made up of straight lines, colored with black and shades of purple and pink over a lavender ground, framed with thin purple lines.