1846 – 1904 · glass, ceramics, marquetry furniture
Émile Gallé
Multi-layer cameo glass carved into seaweed, insects and verse — botany grown inside the vessel wall itself.
The record
Émile Gallé, born in Nancy on 8 May 1846, inherited his family's glass and ceramics works and built them into Europe's most inventive art-industrial studio, showing internationally from the 1878 Paris Exposition onward.
His cameo, internal-inclusion and marquetry techniques gave glass the plasticity of plant and sea life, and his furniture carried the same botany in carved wood.
A founder and first president of the École de Nancy, he died there on 23 September 1904.
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Multi-layer cameo glass carved into seaweed, insects and verse — botany grown inside the vessel wall itself.