Muller Frères French Art Deco Paradise Birds Flushmount, Early 1920s

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Muller Frères French Art Deco Paradise Birds Flushmount, Early 1920s

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French Art Deco flushmount by Muller Frères (Luneville), France, early 1920s. Thick and large pink frosted glass shade with its iron fixture. 6 paradise birds in the sky. Measures: Height 15.5"(39.5cm), overall diameter 14.4"(36.5cm), diameter of the shade 10"(25cm). Signed "Muller Fres Luneville" on the shade (see photo). Fixed to the ceiling by two screws. Delivered wired for your country (US, EU, China, etc...). The Croismare Glassworks, in 1858, Eugene-Auguste Guerner, glass chemist and Jacob Stenger, merchant, coming from Vallerysthal, buy a land outside the village of Croismare near Nancy, to build a glass factory. The factory starts its activity in 1859 as "Establishments Guerner", 5 avenue d'Alsace. Stenger has disappeared we do not know why. Until 1886, the glassworks will manufacture household glassware. In 1865 the company is renamed "Verrerie Guerner et Bailly" (Eugene's son-Bailly is Guerner). Cramped in the original buildings, the factory will expand in 1868. Under the effect of cheap glass imports from Bohemia, the activity decreases and the company stops its activity. In 1894 the factory is bought by various investors and some employees and a new company is created. It is named "SA des Verreries de Croismare". The plant employs over 300 people including 190 men, 90 women and 80 children. The economic downturn that follows allows the Hinzelin family Croismare to buy a majority share of the glassware that is now named "SA des Grandes Verreries de Croismare". In 1913, the staff is reduced to 200 people. The activity will be discontinued during the World War I. In 1919, the Muller brothers decided to resume the factory. The Muller brothers - Sons of an innkeeper of Kalhausen the Muller brothers, who are not yet 17 years old, fleeing the area occupied by the German since 1870 for the city of Nancy. Auguste arrives in 1893. It states to the authorities that he is a glass engraver. Henri joined Galle´ at age 28, De´sire´ does the same at 17 years old as an enamel decorator. Henri and De´sire´ leave Galle´, circa 1895 to create their own workshop in Luneville. Jean starts at Galle's at 24 as an engraver on crystal. In 1896, the entire Muller family (father, mother and children) live in Nancy. Camille works at Daum's, Baccarat and then finally he goes to Se`vres. Eugene, Victor and Pierre join the Galle's workshop. Towards 1904, Eugene joins Henri and Désiré at Luneville. In the workshop of the Rue Sainte-Anne, the three brothers develop their business. Other siblings join them. They buy their "whites" in the Hinzelin's glassworks (from 1895-1914). Then they engrave, carve, they produce vases, cups, ewers, sculptures. The techniques used are cameo engraving in all its forms, inlaid glass, enameling, overlays. In 1900, Henri leases space inside the Croismare glassworks and transfers there some of the workshops of the Rue Sainte-Anne in Luneville. It was at this time that appears the signature "Muller Croismare pre`s Nancy." The Muller brothers are artisans, not Industrial. They multiply the number of superimposed layers of glass and will remain unmatched in this technique. The pieces of this time are among the best because they keep only perfect ones. They become specialists in color and associate all the techniques learnt before but improving them. In 1905, Désireé goes Val Saint Lambert (Belgium), leaving Henri in Croismare. Jean Auguste and Camille leave home Houdaille in Se`vres and Emile becomes assistant director of the Choisy-le-Roi glassworks. Eugene joined De´sire´ in Val Saint Lambert, where they launch the production of works of art under the direction of Leon Ledru. 411 different models will be created. In 1908, Eugene and Desire return to Luneville. With Henri they will open two new workshops and begin a semi-Industrial Production with the introduction of lines of products and manufacturing of fixtures. They receive a silver medal at the International Exhibition of Turin in 1911 and a Gold Medal at the exhibition in Lyon in 1914. The activity stops in 1914 with the beginning of the war during which Eugene was killed. In 1919 the Croismare glassworks has been partially destroyed, the production equipment is outdated. Henri and De´sire´ buy the majority of shares of the Hinzelin's glassworks and create "Les Grandes Verrerie et Cristalleries de Croismare". The buildings are renovated; new ovens are installed. In the same time, they create the new company "Verrerie d'Art Muller Fre'res" to give a name to their activity in Luneville. Pieces made in Luneville will be signed "Muller Fre'res Luneville". Those made in Croismare will be signed "G.V. de Croismare". In 1925, they manage 250 employees in Croismare and 100 in Luneville. The Muller brothers create, innovate and produce with genius. They follow, anticipate, generate and invent trends with talent. They create pieces of all types, all colors, all shapes and for all budgets. In 1927, the two entities are united definitively under a new name: "Grandes Verreries de Croismare et Verrerie d'Art Muller Fre`res Re´unies SA". Its headquarters is based in Croismare to be transferred in 1931 at Luneville. The company has 350 employees in Croismare and 100 in Luneville. The Art Deco chandeliers of that time sometimes are monumental pieces. The molded-pressed glass takes the shape of plaques, frosted or polished, and worked with acid or wheel. The animal vases are among the most beautiful creations of that time. Désire´ refines the intercalaire technique in 1929. He creates a new line with the ironworker Chapelle. The glass is blown into a metal frame of animal shape in an Art Deco style. These pieces are hollow and intended to be electrified.

Creator:
Muller Frères (Maker)
Dimensions:
Height: 15.56 in (39.5 cm)Diameter: 14.38 in (36.5 cm)
Style:
Art Deco (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Glass,Frosted
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1920-1929
Date of Manufacture:
Early 1920s
Condition:
Delivered wired for your country (US, EU, China, etc...).
Seller Location:
Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2312321560792

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Muller Frères

Muller Frères was a family-owned glassworks that is best known for its striking designs produced in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. The French company’s chandeliers, vases, lamps and other glass pieces created in the latter style — which were largely characterized by elegantly crafted natural-world motifs and subtle, organic forms — are highly sought after and make for distinctive additions to any space.

Henri Muller opened the company with four of his brothers in Lunéville, during a time that saw the modernizing Art Nouveau movement in the decorative arts develop countrywide as well as in Britain. It quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States. Muller’s sister and an additional three brothers later joined the business.

The Muller family custom-ordered glass blanks from a glassworks near Nancy. The brothers learned about glass design from Émile Gallé, an innovative pioneer in glass artistry who would become a leading light of Art Nouveau. The style, which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. The earliest works by Muller Frères, which were often crafted in cameo glass, are strongly demonstrative of Gallé’s style and influence.

After a period that saw a pause in production owing to World War I, the company saw considerable success.

Muller Frères employed several hundred people at its commercial peak, when the Art Deco style of the 1920s, which was brought to international attention at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, was popularized by the likes of René Lalique, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Jules Leleu. Authentic Muller Frères Art Deco sconces and pendants and hanging lamps featured sculptural wrought iron frames and saw an integration of high-polished nickel plating, bronze, frosted glass and silver leaf.

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