Daum | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Daum glassworks began as a bottle factory in Nancy and was acquired in the 1870s by Jean Daum (Verrerie de Nancy). Production gradually became specialized in fine glassware. Taken over in 1885-87 by his two sons, Auguste (trained as a lawyer) and Antonin (newly graduated from the École central des arts et manufactures), the firm soon began producing colored glass, and in 1891 opened a decoration studio, employing artists, including Henri Bergé, Eugène Damman, and Jacques Gruber, who created the pieces that were exhibited by the Daum firm at the World Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The Daum works produced layered glass like Emile Gallé’s, and gradually perfected several original and... more.

We have 21 objects that Daum has been involved with.

A tall glass vase with flared concave sides, thick rounded rim, and rounded bottom. The vase is painted with a landscape of delicate white and black birch trees. The vivid green lawn is bounded at the far end with a line of sparse dark green bushes along a body of pale green-grey water. Horizontal blue-grey lines beneath the distant blue-grey trees beyond suggest reflections. The pale grey-blue sky above is spotted with pink. At the rim of the vase, the trees painted on the reverse side are visible through the glass.

A vase with a mouth that tapers inward both above and below from its widest point to a round, bulbous base. The background colors transition from lilac to yellow to dark blue with decorative red and dark blue flowers and leaves. The crocus flowers are raised slightly off of the surface and are the same height with different-sized leaves.

Daum has collaborated with
Louis Majorelle and
Philippe Starck and
Auguste Daum and
Malvézieux Ainé.

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