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Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Glass
Vintage 1970s Italian Brutalist Table Lamps
Crystal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Centerpieces
Crystal
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Glass
Glass
Late 20th Century Post-Modern North and South American Rugs
Wool
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Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
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Vintage 1920s Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
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Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Barware
Gold Leaf
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Centerpieces
Blown Glass
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Glass
20th Century French Table Lamps
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20th Century French Table Lamps
Crystal
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1960s Dutch Brutalist Vases
Clay
Vintage 1970s French Table Lamps
Crystal
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Table Lamps
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Brutalist Vases
Crystal, Enamel
Vintage 1970s French Brutalist Vases
Crystal, Enamel
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Glass
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Glass
Crystal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Crystal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Murano Glass, Smoked Glass
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Crystal
Late 20th Century French Vases
Crystal
Daum for sale on 1stDibs
For collectors, Daum is a name in the first rank of the French makers of art glass, along with those of Émile Gallé and René Lalique. Led in its early decades by the brothers Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), the company, based in the city of Nancy, established its reputation in the Art Nouveau period, and later successfully adopted the Art Deco style.
In 1878, lawyer Jean Daum took over the ownership of a glassworks as payment for a debt and installed his sons as proprietors. Initially, Daum made glass for everyday purposes such as windows, watches and tableware, but the success that Gallé enjoyed at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris — the international showcase for which the Eiffel Tower was built — inspired the Daum brothers to begin making art-glass pieces. They produced popular works of cameo glass, a decorative technique in which an outer layer of glass is acid-etched or carved off to reveal the layer below, but Daum became best known for vessels and sculptures in pâte de verre — a painstaking method in which finely ground colored glass is mixed with a binder, placed in a mold and then fired in a kiln.
Though early Daum glass was never signed by individual artists, the firm employed some of the masters of the naturalistic, asymmetrical Art Nouveau style, including Jacques Grüber, Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter (whose first name is frequently misspelled). Daum also collaborated with furniture and metalware designer Louis Majorelle, who created wrought-iron and brass mounts for vases and table lamps. In the 1960s, Daum commissioned fine artists, most notably Salvador Dalí and sculptor César Baldaccini, to design glass pieces. As you see from the works offered on 1stDibs, Daum has been home to an astonishingly rich roster of creative spirits and is today a state-owned enterprise making pâte de verre figurines.