Gallé Furniture

Émile Gallé (died 1904) was leader of the École de Nancy, a group of decorative artist‐craftsmen in Alsace who were producing high quality and innovative furniture toward the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Gallé is better known as an artist in glass and has already featured in the book, Glass by Gallé, and is due to feature in a forthcoming book, Gallé Lamps, both also by Duncan and de Bartha and the Antique Collectors' Club. In 1884 Gallé began construction of a state‐of‐the‐art furniture workshop which marked the start of a commercial operation that continued long after...