Idées 2, Plate 3

Third 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 executed with purple, white, pink, and shades of green. The first design consists of a large oval frame of dark bluish-green color, containing a bundle of semi-abstract flowers and flower buds colored with pink and white, and with pistils and leaves colored with dark bluish-green and black over gray, some of them also with white dots, and with offsetting light green scrolling leaves, over a dark bluish-green background with black shadows and white and gran highlights. The second design is made up of alternating white roundels with semi-abstract tree motifs colored with dark bluish-green and light green, and semi-abstract rosettes colored with pink and with black and dark bluish-green leaves, over a purple background with zig-zagging horizontal stripes. The third design is made up of large bundles of semi-abstract leaves colored with dark bluish-green and outlined with black, holding a diagonal stripe with semi-abstract fruits colored with pink lozenges and with white, separated by bundles of semi-abstract leaves outlined with light green and with small, round, white flower buds on black stems.