Studio d'Arts Décoratifs, 4e Série, Pl. 2, Motif Chinois. – Vol d’Oiseaux. – Ornement moyen-âgeux. – Roses sur quadrillé. – Frise et base.

Designed by Hennequin-Rêveur French
Published by Armand Guérinet French

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Second plate of the fourth series of pochoir pattern books, titled "Studio d'arts décoratifs: Motifs inédits pour toutes Industries d'Art" (Studio of Decorative Arts: Novel Motifs for all Art Industries, with Art Deco textile designs created by Hennequin-Rêveur and published in Paris by Armand Guérinet, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The series consists of a title page with index and 12 plates with designs numbered 1-12, each with numerous designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs 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.

This plate consists of six designs with semi-abstract floral and geometric motifs. The first design consists of a Chinese-inspired motif made up of large bundles of stylized flowers and leaves colored with aqumarine, yellow and purple, and outlined with black, over a background with vertical stripes colored alternatingly with black, lilac and purple. The second design is made up of semi-abstract flying birds of different sizes with yellow, green, blue, red and white feathers over a dark gray background with blue and white traces. The third motif is made up of small lozenges grouped in nines to form larger lozenges, colored with shades of blue and outlined with white, over a background with colored alternatingly with shades of blue and dark gray; the three lozenges standing horizontally in the center of the larger lozenge they form are outlined with gray and white. The fourth design is made up of bundles with three semi-abstract roses outlined with purple and leaves colored with blue and outlined with white over a black ground with a grid executed in blue. The fifth design is made up of a group of three vertical intermittent stripes, colored with aquamarine and light blue, flanked to the right by scrolling branches with leaves, colored alternatingly with blue and yellow, over a dark blue background with small blue Grecian scrolls. The sixth design is made up of overlapping circles of different sizes outlined with blue that contain grops of five petaloids colored with purple, separated by thin scrolls colored with yellow, over a dark blue ground with small yellow triangle outlines.

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