Product Description: This title divides the Galle cristallerie's vast production of light fixtures into two basic categories - those created before Galle's death in 1904 and those produced by the firm from then until its colsure in 1931."

Product Description: Emille Gallé was one of the leading figures of the Art Nouveau movement in France, and founder of the famous École de Nancy. A polymath and committed social activist, he was best known for his glasswork and faience. Furniture became his third discipline after experimenting with the manufacture of wooden bases on which he could mount his glass vases...read more

Discusses Emile Galle's designs for glass vases, bowls, and lamps and describes the techniques used by the artist in making glassware