Kaléidoscope: Ornements Abstraits: quatre-vingt-sept motifs en vingt planches composés par Ad. et M. P.-Verneuil

Editions Albert Lévy|Jean Saudé|Maurice-Pillard Verneuil|Ad. Verneuil

1926 · Pochoir · Drawings and Prints

This book, titled "Kaléidoscope: Ornements Abstraits" (Kaleidoscope: Abstract Ornaments), is bound on dark blue linen boards and contains a title page and 20 plates (numbered 1-20) presenting a total of 87 designs for textiles, in the style of Art Deco. Having its peak during the "Roaring Twenties" (second half of the 1920s) and the Depression years of the 1930s, the eclecticism of Art Deco was permeated by both traditional European design traditions and contemporary avant-garde. The designs presented in this book contain colorful, abstract motifs, which evoke, with their fragmented vocabulary, the dynamism of modern culture that was common of Art Deco.

Artist

Editions Albert Lévy|Jean Saudé|Maurice-Pillard Verneuil|Ad. Verneuil

Date

1926

Medium

Pochoir

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1927, transferred from the Library