Hand Blown Glass Art

Art Nouveau is was an international movement and style of art that was established around the turn of the 20th century. This style of art is characterized by highly stylized flowing curvature forms such as floral and plant motifs.

Art Nouveau etched glass is an art form where these stylized shapes and forms are etched into either frosted or plain glass that results in contrasting floral and plant shapes and spirals.

This Art Nouveau style of glass art was depicted by Louis Comfort Tiffany in his stained glass projects such as windows and lamps.

Emile Gallé is considered one of the most outstanding glass artists of the Art Nouveau period. Creating glass art using various techniques which included etched glass,  his glass was very elaborate.  Nature inspired many of his his designs, which were mostly floral, some with foliage. Some included landscape decorations and some even had a strong Japanese influence. He developed a technique for the production of cut and incised flashed glass and enameled designs, enhanced by bright colors and transparency of the material.

Galle made vases and lamps in two distinct qualities of glass – one that was a one of a ind art glass, and the other, an industrial design that could be replicated.

Emile Galle Art Nouveau Glass 

Collectors pay big money for Galle’s art glass masterpieces that display the marriage of art, nature, and technology.

Rembrandt Square

If you want to enjoy the flavor of some magnificent traditional Dutch food, be sure to visit the exquisite Brasserie Schiller, which is a hundred years old Art Nouveau building fantastically adorned with etched-glass panels.

Antique parlor lamp

Early models featured etched- or cut-glass fonts and shades. Your parlor lamp incorporates two design styles popular at the turn of the last century. Its scrolled, wrought-iron legs and embossed, copper-plated, brass font are indicative of arts-and-crafts-style … The opal glass globe’s hand-painted floral motif typifies lingering interest in the naturalistic Art Nouveau movement, and probably was made by the Fostoria Shade and Lamp Co. or Mt. Washington Glass Works.