Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 7

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are 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 seventh plate of the album presents three designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design is made up of a cream trunk with large stylized leaves colored with blue, purple, black and cream between blue and purple branches with semi-abstract blue and purple leaves and semi-abstract flowers with white and purple petals and black pistils, over a brown, yellow and black ground. The second design is made up of large flowers with petals colored with shades of gray and pink or with pink, purple, white and black on cream and black stems with undulating abstract leaves over a patched background colored with blue, gray, cream and light pink. The third design consists of a row of large semi-abstract flowers with pink, cream and light brown petals and brown pistils on black and blue stems with leaves over a purple background.