Emile Gallé | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Gallé was born in Nancy on May 8, 1846, and died there on September 23, 1904. Son of a faience and furniture manufacturer, he studied philosophy, botany and drawing (owing to his botanical knowledge, his floral decoration, in both glass and wood, is exceptionally accurate), and also worked in his father’s studios. In 1866-7, he served an apprenticeship in glassmaking at Burgun, Schverer & Cie. in Meisenthal. He established his own glass studio in 1873, and, in the following year, took over his father’s glass and ceramics factory in Nancy. His early work often used colorless glass decorated with enamel, but he soon turned to using heavy opaque glass carved or etched with floral/plant motifs, often in... more.

We have 22 objects that Emile Gallé has been involved with.

The folding top inlaid in contrasting colors of wood with floral and foliage decoration. Carved, folding legs support a flat work surface and a backboard, both decorated with inlaid soft-wood marquetry of flowers, the backboard including two small fold-down shelves to support inkwell, pens, etc. The work surface and backboard are cut rectangularly, however, the flat surface has a symmetrically curved cuts on the edge. The legs are carved with extreme detail including two decorative knobs on the top of the legs.

A vase with a dark base, filled with leaves. Flowers sprout from the bottom, curling toward the top. Behind the flowers is an amber-colored background, getting lighter toward the top of the vase.

A narrow neck vase yields to a larger, ovular vase. The shade is a mix of dark amber and charcoal. The pattern is a vine-like plant with small petals blooming off of it. The base of the vase is darkest, where the plant is thickest.

Emile Gallé has collaborated with
Gallé and
Etablissement Gallé and
Marshall Field and Co..

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