Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 16

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 sixteenth plate of the album presents five designs with semi-abstract floral motifs executed with a variety of colors. One of the designs is presented in the center of the sheet, and consists of a bundle of large, semi-abstract flowers with yellow, orange, pink and red petals standing on mint green and gray stems with leaves over a background colored with light blue and lilac. Around it are four abstract floral patterns executed with different colores: the first with black, pink, and shades of blue, the second with black, gray and cream, the third with yellow, cream and black over a brown ground, and a final one with pink, lilac, cream and black over a purple ground.