Idées 1, Plate 9

Ninth 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 four designs executed with tones of pink and purple. The first design consists of a semi-abstract basked made up of a scrolling line, dots, and two intermittent curved lines, colored with white, that contains scrolling branches with semi-abstract flower buds and leaves, colored with purple and pink, over a gray ground. The second design is made up of rows of rectangular motifs made up of thin gray lines, and semi-abstract flowers, made up of scrolling intermittent black lines, over a purplish-pink ground. The third design is made up of branches with leaves, colored with greenish-gray and purple, and small scattered rosettes, colored with pink, over a white ground. The final design is made up of diagonal strips of semi-abstract tulips (?) on stems with leaves, executed with pink, redn, and shades of purple, and small scattered squares, colored with dark purple, over a purple ground.