Suggestions, Pl. 8

Designed by Emile-Allain Séguy French
Published by Ch. Massin & Cie. French

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Eighth plate of album with 20 pochoir pattern plates with designs for textiles and carpets, titled "Suggestions pour étoffes et tapis: 60 motifs en couleur" (Suggestions for stuffs and carpets: 60 color motifs), created by E.A. Séguy and published in Paris by Massin & Cie in 1923. The plate contains three designs with semi-abstract motifs inspired from nature, executed with lively colors. The first design is made up of thin, horizontal, undulating branches, colroed with brown, with thin, elongated leaves, executed with two shades of green and white highlights, and flanked alternatingly by bundles with three semi-abstract sunflowers (?), executed with shades of brown, and smaller flower buds. The second design is made up of thin, interlacing branches with semi-abstract leaves, colored with dark brown and with semi-circles executed with strips of light brown stipples, and round flower buds, colored with white, on a red ground. The third design is made up of two thin, brown stripes, flanked alternatingly by bundles of semi-abstract leaves, colored with brown and shades of green, on a light green ground with yellow stipples.

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