The Etablissements Gallé during the 1920s
Les Établissements Gallé pendant les années 1920
Résumé
The last period of the Etablissements Gallé, from his widow Henriette’s death in 1914 to the clearance sale of the ateliers in 1936, was paradoxically the most productive and commercially successful, and yet it is the least known. This period is usually dismissed with the suggestion that the Etablissements Gallé perfected the simplest and most cost-effective techniques practiced by Emile Gallé, while giving up on his more ambitious experiments and failing to rejuvenate their line of products with inspired new designs. This summary fails to account for several significant innovations or for the introduction of new designs reflecting evolutions in taste. The so called “mold-blown” series of vases and lamps from the 1920s is one such initiative: the Elephants, the Arum vases, the Rhododendrons or Cherries lamps are well known models in this technique, in which the glass was blown with compressed air inside an engraved mold.
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