Tag: Emile-Allain Séguy

Papillons (butterflies) to put up and make your home feel like a butterfly garden. Art Déco, plates from Emile-Allain Séguy’s 1925 “Papillons.” Commissioned by American textile manufacturer F. Schumacher.

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Plate 1. Page 7. Smithsonian Libraries, Contributor. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/7/mode/1up
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Plate 3. Page 11. Smithsonian Libraries, Contributor. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/11/mode/1up
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Plate 2. Page 9. Smithsonian Libraries, Contributor. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/9/mode/1up

Art Deco butterflies ready to flit right off of the page and into your heart or at least the centerpiece. From Emile-Allain Séguy’s 1925 “Papillons.” Commissioned by American textile manufacturer F. Schumacher.

Plate 17.
Plate 17. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/38/mode/2up
Plate 18.
Plate 18. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/40/mode/2up
Plate 19.
Plate 19. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/42/mode/2up
Plate 20.
Plate 20. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/192166#page/44/mode/2up

Plates from Emile-Allain Séguy’s pochoir book “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental.” Edited by Charles Massin. Published around 1914.

Plate IX.
Plate IX. Image © Cleveland Institute of Art. Fair use license. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.322
Plate XVIII.
Plate XVIII. Image © Cleveland Institute of Art. Fair use license. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.329
Plate XI.
Plate XI. Image © Cleveland Institute of Art. Fair use license. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.324
Plate X.
Plate X. Image © Cleveland Institute of Art. Fair use license. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.323
Plate XVI.
Plate XVI. Image © Cleveland Institute of Art. Fair use license. via http://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.327

Séguy designed quite a few other pochoir books. Look out for blog posts with those coming soon. Just as beautiful.