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Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

French, 1846-1904

“Art for art’s sake” was a belief strongly espoused by the celebrated French designer and glassworker Émile Gallé. Through his ethereal glass vases, other vessels and lamps, which he adorned with botanical and religious motifs, Gallé advanced the Art Nouveau ideology and led the modern renaissance of French glass.

Gallé was the son of successful faience and furniture maker Charles Gallé but studied philosophy and botany before coming to glassmaking later in life. The young Gallé’s expertise in botany, however, would inform his design style and become his signature for generations to come.

After learning the art of glassmaking, Gallé went to work at his father’s factory in Nancy. He initially created clear glass objects but later began to experiment with layering deeply colored glass.

While glassmakers on Murano had applied layers of glass and color on decorative objects before Gallé had, he was ever-venturesome in his northeastern France, taking advantage of defects that materialized during his processes and etching in natural forms like insects such as dragonflies, marine life, the sun, vines, fruits and flowers modeled from local specimens.

Gallé is also credited with reviving cameo glass, a glassware style that originated in Rome. He used cabochons, which were applied raised-glass decorations colored with metallic oxides and made to resemble rich jeweling. Gallé's cameo glass vases and vessels were widely popular at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, cementing his position as a talented designer and pioneer.

During the late 19th century, Gallé led breakthroughs in mass production and employed hundreds of artisans in his workshop.

Botany and nature remained great sources of inspiration for the artist's glassmaking — just as they had for other Art Nouveau designers. From approximately 1890 to 1910, the movement’s talented designers produced furniture, glass and architecture in the form of — or adorned with — gently intertwining trees, flowers and vines. But Gallé had many interests, such as Eastern art and ceramics. The Japanese collection he visited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (then the South Kensington Museum) during the 1870s had made an impression too.

Breaking free from the rigid Victorian traditions, Gallé infused new life and spirit into the art and design of his time through exquisitely crafted glass vessels and pioneering new glassworking techniques.

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Creator: Émile Gallé
Büchertisch / Musikalientisch / Notentisch ÉMILE GALLÉ, Nancy, um 1903
By Émile Gallé
Located in Aachen, DE
Seltener Musikalientisch Emile Gallé, gefertigt in Nancy um 1903. Der ursprüngliche Zweck war möglicherweise die Aubewahrung von Notenheften / Partituren, dies würde die Größe der Fä...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Gallé Art Nouveau vitrine
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saverne, Grand Est
Showcase signed "Gallé" in walnut and veneer, decorated with clematis. It opens on the front with a large glazed leaf and a small leaf in the lower part. The locks and the lighting s...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Walnut

Emile Gallé "Aux Ombelles" French Art Nouveau Cabinet
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A French carved and fruitwood marquetry inlaid Ombelliféres vitrine by Emile Gallé. The vitrine has marquetry ombelle flowers in its interior and on the panel below the bottom shelf....
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Fruitwood

Émile Gallé "Chardons des Sables" Chest of Drawers
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This "Chardons des Sables," or "Sand Thistle," multi-wood chest of drawers, by Émile Gallé, is a moving meditation on the artist's own mortality. T...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Art Nouveau Commode by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau marquetry commode by Émile Gallé. With original key. Circa 1890. The syncretic influence of Japanese art is keenly felt in Gallé's commode. The beginning of Galle's fascination with Japanese art can be traced back to his friendship with Hokkai Takashima (1850-1931), a fellow botanist and member of the École de Nancy. Their botanical dialogue was facilitated by the Shokobutsu mei-i, a book of Japanese names for botanical species. It is from Hokkai that Gallé gained a spiritual and symbolic understanding of nature. Along with other École de Nancy artists, Hokkai and Gallé exhibited together in the display window of René Wiener's papeterie. The store served as the office of Wiener's arts journal, the Nancy artiste, which regularly featured on its covers contemporary examples of Gansai (Japanese watercolor), Byōbu (folding screens) from the Rinpa school, Sumi-e (ink painting), and Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints). As a show of gratitude, Hokkai bequeathed a vast art book collection to Wiener. It is from this record that we know with certainty of which Japanese artists Gallé had knowledge. One of the books in Hokkai's collection was Hokusai's Les cent paysages du Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei.) This 1835 expansion of Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Wood

Émile Gallé "Grenouilles" Fruitwood Cabinet
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This French Art Nouveau "Grenouilles" carved fruitwood cabinet by Émile Gallé features detailed and masterful marquetry depicting dragonflies and mushrooms in a lush, leafy landscape...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets

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Beech, Fruitwood

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Emile Gallé case pieces and storage cabinets for sale on 1stDibs.

Emile Gallé case pieces and storage cabinets are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Emile Gallé case pieces and storage cabinets, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original case pieces and storage cabinets by Emile Gallé were created in the Art Nouveau style in france during the 19th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider case pieces and storage cabinets by Léon Jallot, and Louis Majorelle. Prices for Emile Gallé case pieces and storage cabinets can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $11,125 and can go as high as $27,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $19,312.

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