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Side table, on three turned legs. Decorated with naturalistic inlay made of different types of fruit trees. It is a "talking piece of furniture", Emile Galle often placed different words on his furniture, sometimes fragments of favorite poems or proverbs.
+TABLE WITH A PROVERB, Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau, France, Nancy, ca. 1890
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Side table, on three turned legs. Decorated with naturalistic inlay made of different types of fruit trees. It is a "talking piece of furniture", Emile Galle often placed different words on his furniture, sometimes fragments of favorite poems or proverbs.
Description
Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau, Nancy, ca. 1890. Signed: "Emile Gallé Nancy, with the monogram of the Cross of Lorraine".
Height 72.5 cm, width 52 cm, length 54 cm.
State of preservation visible in the photos.
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) - famous designer of porcelain, glass and furniture. The forerunner of Art Nouveau in Nancy, and later director of the famous École de Nancy, hung the motto above his workshop: "Our roots are deep in the forests, on the banks of springs, among the moss". Numerous artists from Nancy, working in various fields of art, drew abundantly from flora and fauna, especially that of the Lorraine area, thereby expressing on the one hand a romantic longing for contact with nature, and on the other local patriotism. Individual furniture elements, such as the legs of a bookcase from around 1900, refer to furniture from the Far East, and floral and zoomorphic motifs always play a dominant role in them, as in the chair with a leaf-shaped backrest or the famous bed from 1904, the artist's last work, in which butterflies made using the inlay and inlay technique symbolize dawn and dusk, and perhaps also birth and death. Émile Gallé believed that the greatest happiness for an artist - craftsman is the joy of the work performed.
/ Table, Émile Gallé (1846-1904), art nouveau, Nancy, circa 1890. /