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.
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Daum Pierre D'Avesn Rare Large Art Deco Fish Pendant Chandelier, 1920
By Pierre D'Avesn, Daum
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
This exceptional French Art Deco chandelier was designed by Pierre D’Avesn for Daum and produced in the Croismare workshops near Nancy, France, during the 1920s. Its rare and highly ...
Wrought Iron
Daum Nancy Art Deco Vase
By Daum
Located in NANTES, FR
Art Deco vase, circa 1930. Amethyst glass vase featuring an acid-etched geometric design. Signed Daum Nancy France. In perfect condition. Total height: 31 cm Vase diameter: 20 cm Ri...
Glass
Daum Nancy Art Nouveau Blue-Green Landscape Footed Vase, circa 1900
By Daum
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A beautiful French Art Nouveau glass footed vase by Daum Nancy, dating to circa 1900. The piece has a wonderfully rounded, almost bowl-like body raised on a short stem and circular foot, giving it an elegant and particularly well-balanced silhouette. The glass displays an extraordinary palette of shifting blue and green tones. Depending on the direction and intensity of the light, the surface can appear predominantly turquoise blue, aqua, soft green or even vivid emerald, while deeper cobalt-blue accents define the foot and the landscape decoration around the lower body. The interior is equally striking, revealing a mottled composition of luminous greens and blues that gives the glass remarkable visual depth. Around the base of the bowl is a stylized wooded landscape rendered in dark blue, characteristic of the atmospheric naturalistic decoration associated with Daum’s Art Nouveau production. The softly mottled surface evokes sky, water and vegetation without becoming overtly figurative, giving the piece an almost Impressionistic quality. The body bears the incised “Daum Nancy” signature with the Cross of Lorraine, an emblematic mark associated with the celebrated Nancy glassworks. Comparable Daum landscape...
Art Glass
$22,000
H 20.87 in W 13.98 in D 6.69 in
Rare masterpiece Salvador Dali Leibnitz Cross Daum Nancy, surrealism 1974 France
By Salvador Dalí, Daum
Located in Wien, AT
This is an exceptionally rare and limited-edition glass sculpture by one of the most famous Spanish representatives of Surrealism, Salvador Dali. The figure was created by the equall...
Art Glass
$22,000
H 14.97 in Dm 19.69 in
DAUM & MAJORELLE Wide pendant chandelier with acid-etched blackberries 1910-1915
By Daum, Louis Majorelle
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Wide and thick French Art Nouveau acid-etched pendant chandelier with blacberries by DAUM (Nancy) and Louis MAJORELLE (Nancy), France, circa 1910-1915. This exceptional French Art N...
Wrought Iron
Victor Saglier and Daum Nancy Art Nouveau Carafe
By Victor Saglier, Daum
Located in NANTES, FR
Decanter engraved with acid with floral decoration around 1900 attributed to Daum Nancy and Victor Saglier for the setting. Signature at the bottom of the carafe. Note a slight defor...
Metal
Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Pedestal Vase
By Daum
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Art Nouveau Daum Nancy Pedestal Vase
Art Glass
Daum Nancy Table Lamp, Art Nouveau Glass & Bronze, France Circa 1915
By Daum
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
This rare French Mid-Century Modern chandelier was designed by Maison Lunel in Paris, France, during the 1950s. With its distinctive six-light composition and elegant ostrich egg-sha...
Bronze
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