Idées 2, Plate 4

Fourth 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 four designs executed with shades of purple and orange. The first design, possibly for a border, is made up of a vertical light green stripe decorated with alternating circles, outlined with orange, and stylized leaves, outlined with black and with a purple shuttle motif in the center, over a yellow ground. The second motif is made up of bundles of semi-abstract leaves with pairs of semi-abstract roses, colored with purple and orange, and black-and-purple scrolling motifs with green and purple fragments of triangles and rectangles, over a black and purple ground. The third design is made up of a large semi-abstract rose, colored with gray and outlined with shades of purple, surrounded by smaller rosettes, colored with shades of purple, and by rockets, colored with orange, and outlined with purple, over a background with triangles and rectangles, colored with gray, black, and shades of purple, inside a square frame outlined by pairs of purple lines, the inner ones flaked by strips of yellow triangles and purple triangles, and with small black squares on the corners. The fourth design is made up of gray cornucopias, outlined with purple, containing semi-abstract fruits colored with orange and outlined with purple, and grames (?), colored with purple and outlined with black, over a semi-abstract background with overlapping yellow cloud motifs.