Idées 1, Plate 1

First plate of the first album of a book containing two pochoir pattern albums bound together, titled "Idées 1" (Ideas 1), published ca. 1933 by the Librairie des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and designed by Jacques Camus. 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: the first is made up of semi-abstract rosettes, flower buds and funghi motifs, colored with pink, outlined with shades of brown, and some of them with light yellow eyes, over an orange ground. The second design consists of a city-scape, possibly of a city from the African Mediterranean (?), in which simplified building shapes, palm trees, and a river can be identified, executed with white, gray and brown, over a cream ground. The third design is made up of a large, stylized tree trunk, colored with pink, from which branches with stylized leaves and fruits scroll out, colored with brown, cream and orange, and with black shadows, over a gray ground.