Geo Desains for Restaurant Maire

Advertising fan with stained wooden sticks.
The double paper leaf is printed on the recto with a chromolithograph of fashionably dressed patrons shown entering Restaurant Maire. Two statuesque females wearing feathered hats and fur trimmed evening ensembles exude an unmistakable air of Edwardian elegance while an Irish wolfhound makes the perfect accessory to the figure on the right.
Signed ‘Geo Desains’.
The verso is printed in monochrome with linear ornamental borders.
Compare Desains’ Edwardian goddesses to the figures depicted on fans in ‘Deco Decadence’. In little over a decade the fashionable female body underwent a most remarkable transfiguration from: statuesque woman to gamine youth.