Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 17

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 seventeenth plate of the album presents four designs with semi-abstract floral motifs executed mostly with shades of green and brown. The first design presents a bundle with large semi-abstract lilies with petals colored with shades of pink, green and turquoise, standing on pink stems with semi-abstract leaves colored with shades of greenish-brown over a dark green background with a large dark brown patch. The second design consists of an abstract flower with blue, gray, brown and green petals over a turquoise and dark brown ground. The third design is made up of semi-abstract flowers with white, gray and green petals over a dark brown background with white patches with olive green glitches, a blue patch with dark brown horizontal lines and a dark green patch. The final design consists of a bundle of abstract elongated leaves colored with pink and shades of brown and green over a background executed with dark brown and olive green with blue spots and brown horizontal lines.