Gazette du Bon Ton "La Douce Nuit" (Balmy night) pochoir fashion plate  E-mail this product to a friend

GdBT On a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, a Man has a cigarette with a Lady in an elegant gown for dancing, designed by Charles Worth.
Andre-E. Marty pochoir 1920s fashion plate for Gazette du Bon Ton (Journal of Good Style), illustrating the latest superior styles.

Pochoir (French for stencil), coloured by gouache and watercolour, with different stencils of zinc for each colour, by the finest illustrators of the day, showed fashions by prominent French designers, for Gazette du Bon Ton (the periodical for the well-to-do), published by Lucien Vogel in Paris between 1912 and 1925 (with a break during World War I) and distributed by Condé Nast. Distributed in the U.S. as Gazette du Bon Genre, both titles translate roughly as Journal of the Good Style. Using the distinctive pochoir style, Parisan's couturier's latest fashions are worn, frequently shown in appropriate settings.

Size of page 24 x 19cm or 9.1/2" x 7.1/2"