Émile-Allain Séguy, a French designer of the Art Deco and Art Nouveau eras, published *Insectes* in 1925 to showcase his fascination with insects, which he regarded as “mechanic wonders” that fueled his richly detailed interior design concepts.
Presented across 20 pochoir pattern plates featuring 80 insect specimens and 16 decorative compositions, *Insectes* employed a costly, labor-intensive stenciling technique popular in 1920s Paris, where each color layer was painstakingly applied by hand through separate stencils.
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