Studio d'Arts Décoratifs..., Pl. 16, Quatre Dessins en noir

Sixteenth plate of pochoir pattern book, titled "Studio d'arts décoratifs", with Art Deco textile designs created by Nicolas Sorokine and published in Paris by Armand Guérinet, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page with index and 16 plates numbered 1-16, each with numerous designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs 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.

This plate presents four designs with geometric and abstract motifs, executed with black over light gray grounds. The first two designs consist of overlapping striangles, rectangles, and fragments of circles. The third design is made up of fragments of sunbursts and squares with triangles flanked by scales and shuttle shapes, some of them with eyes. The fourth design is made up of overlapping scales flanked by thorns, strips of lozenges, zig-zagging lines and strips of triangles.