Daum Furniture
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.
Color: Beige
Creator: Daum
Daum Acid Etched Spiderweb and Enameled Orchid Vase
By Daum
Located in Gainesville, FL
Daum Acid etched and enameled vase. Finely painted orchid flowers decoration. Spiderweb etched background. Great Art Nouveau item. The vase in signed " Daum Nancy" with Croix de Lor...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum Nancy Crystal Snowflake Lamps
By Daum
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A molded and polished repetitive pattern.
Original shades
Acid-Etched signature.
Category
1960s French Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Art Deco Daum Glass Centerpiece Bowl w/ Controlled Bubbles
By Daum
Located in Miami, FL
Rare Art Deco glass centerpiece bowl or large catchall tray by Daum. Made in Nancy, France, circa 1924-1939. The low profile decorative dish features th...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Vase Daum Nancy with enamel, France, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
By Daum
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Daum Nancy
Daum is the name of a factory established in 1875 in the city of Nancy, France. When the notary Jean Daum became the owner of an industrial furnace, that of Nancy Glass, ...
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1910s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Signed Pair Daum Sculptural Table Lamps Blue Clear Crystal Glass France 1970s
By Lalique, Daum
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Rare pair of high quality and high end French table lamps signed Daum France around 1970s. The heavy midcentury lamp bases are made of clear crystal glass combined with ocean blue ti...
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1970s French Brutalist Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Daum Nancy French Art Deco "Mushroom" Patterned and Yellow Painted Table Lamp
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco "mushroom" form table lamp with a cylindrical glass base with curved iron supports holding a domed glass shade, the body and shade having acid etched geometric design...
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20th Century French Art Deco Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Daum Pumpkins Cameo Glass Vase c1910
By Daum
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
This is a rare design. The fruits do make some think of gooseberries , however they are in fact pumpkins
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Daum Cameo Glass Large Lily Flower Vase
By Daum
Located in Gainesville, FL
Daum cameo glass lily flower impressive vase. Very fine finish Signed in cameo. Good polished pontil.
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
"Toute Petite Étrangeté" Cocoon Vase by Philippe Starck for Daum, France, 1980s
By Daum, Philippe Starck
Located in Lille, FR
"Toute petite étrangeté" cocoon vase by Philippe Starck for Daum, France, 1980s.
Signed.
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1980s French Post-Modern Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Antique French Art Deco Etched & Engraved Smoked Peach Glass Bowl by Daum, 1920
By Daum
Located in Portland, OR
Antique French Art Deco hand blown glass bowl by Daum, 1920s.
The bowl made of a smoky peach color glass and having a wide 'dished' form and decorated with twin bands of geometric decoration of textured etched raised panels. The bowl is raised on a circular ribbed foot having a ground pontil mark and etched signature to base ‘Daum Nancy France’ with Croix de Lorraine.
The bowl is in excellent condition and epitomizes the Age of Jazz Art...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Art Nouveau Bronze and Art Glass Table Lamp by Daum Nancy, 1920's
By Daum
Located in Lisboa, PT
This Art Nouveau table lamp was designed and produced by Daum Nancy, in France, during the 1920's. It has a blown glass shade that is hung in a solid bronze fixture with organic and ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau Vase with Delicate Flower Branches Decor, Daum Nancy, France, c 1910
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
Slender baluster vase, colorless glass with white and yellow, in the lower area with meadow green powder inclusions, arched, flush base with green-turquoise color inclusions, as well...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Rare Abstract Frosted Solid Block Glass Sculpture by Daum
By Daum
Located in San Diego, CA
A very rare abstract frosted glass sculpture by Daum stamped on the top solid block of glass frosted finish very heavy and unique maybe store display.
Category
20th Century French Post-Modern Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Art Deco Acid Etched Smoked Citrine Recess Molded Vase Signed by Daum Nancy
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and sophisticated Art Deco vase/ vessel was realized in Nancy, France by the esteemed studio of Daum- arguably the most prestigious and highly collected atelier of the period circa 1930. The piece features a round base that dramatically flares into a protuberant base subtly tapering to a gently indented neck before flaring out once more to a rounded mouth. This piece is full of subtle and idiosyncratic geometries and gentle curves. Realized in a beautiful translucent smoked...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Daum Nancy Art Deco Glass Chandelier
By Daum
Located in Fairfax, VA
Clear frost blown acid glass chandelier signed Daum Nacy.
Total of five lights 75 watts max each.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
French Daum Crystal Glass Table Lamp, around 1960s ' Signed '
By Daum
Located in Wien, AT
French Daum crystal glass table lamp, around 1960s ( signed )
Original condition
Brass version ( europe e27 ).
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Daphne Decor, Daum Nancy, France, ca 1910
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
Beaker-shaped vase on a stepped, conical base, widening upwards to a square mouth rim, colorless glass with flaky white, yellow and blue, in the base area with green colored powder inclusions, with etched and painted in colored enamel Daphne decor, satin surface in the background, floor smooth polished, relief signature 'DAUM NANCY' with cross of Lorraine on the wall between the plants.
Technique: Handmade cameo glass
Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Art Deco Acid Etched Smoked Citrine Vase Spherical Signed by Daum Nancy France
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and museum quality French Art Deco "Cubist style" glass vase by Daum Nancy is designed with an "acid etched" vertically etched harmonious repeating pattern. This smokey ...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
French Daum Nancy Crystal Table Lamp, 1970s
By Daum
Located in Delft, NL
A crystal table lamp by Daum, France, 1970s. A transparent crystal lamp with a 3 dimensional effect. Hollowly worked inwards, so that it gives a beautiful effect at the front.
Signe...
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20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Columbine Decor, Daum Nancy, France, Ca 1910
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
Large baluster vase on a flush stand, base set off by polished fillets, wall slightly curved upwards and widening towards the opening, colorless glass with flaky white and yellowish ...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Daum Nancy French Art Nouveau Miniature Cameo Glass Vase with Violets
By Daum
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional French Art Nouveau Daum Frères Violets miniature cameo glass vase wheel cut with raised designs in colored enamels on an etched ground dating from around 1900. The tal...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Daum Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
Signed, Daum Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A period Art Deco, acid-etched glass vase in an amber tone. Signed "Daum Nancy, France" with the cross of Lorraine- a hallmark of the famed Daum crystal makers.
More than 600 glas...
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1920s French Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
French Art Nouveau Miniature Glass Vase "Dutch Winter Landscape" by Daum Frères
By Daum
Located in London, GB
An attractive miniature cameo glass vase decorated with boats upon a lake in a snowy Dutch landscape with a windmill on the banks, the surface exhibiting Fine colour and hand painted...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass, Cut Glass
Daum Nancy Penguin Vase, circa 1910
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
Signed Daum Nacy with the Cross of Lorraine.
Category
1910s French Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Bowl, France, circa 1900
By Daum
Located in Pymble, NSW
Yellow orchids are in bloom on this rare cameo art glass bowl by the renowned French glass making firm of Daum, Nancy. The graceful vessel features a wavy-...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Daum Nancy "Fleurs et Abeilles" Enameled and Etched Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
This French Art Nouveau enameled and etched "Fleurs et Abeilles" glass vase by Daum Nancy features an unusual and wildly undulating form that is countered neatly by the tightly executed landscape that decorates its organic curves, bulges, dips and valleys. Climbing from a deeply, darkly colored base upward to the bright, nearly translucent bright yellow rim of the vase are a field of ultra-finely rendered red orchid blooms with framing leaves...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum Nancy Internally Decorated Glass Vase, with Applied Decoration France
By Daum
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Daum Nancy internally decorated Glass Vase, with applied decoration
France, circa 1925
signed in intaglio Daum Nancy with Lorraine cross
Dimensions
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1920s Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Superb and Very Fine Daum Nancy Wheel-Carved Cameo and Martele Glass Vase
By Daum
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A superb and very fine Daum Nancy wheel-carved cameo and martele glass vase, with low relief applied decoration
France, circa 1910
Signed in intaglio Daum Nancy with lorraine cross...
Category
1910s Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
Daum Nancy Fruit Vase, circa 1900
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
An enameled cameo glass vase signed in cameo Daum Nancy with Cross of Lorraine, circa 1910.
Category
Early 20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum Nancy Landscape Vase, circa 1910
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
Signed Daum Nacy with the Cross of Lorraine.
Category
Early 20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum Nancy, Art Deco Amber Glass Vase with Scalloped Rim, France, C. 1950's
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
Daum was founded in Nancy, France, by Jean Daum in 1878. After his death in 1885, his sons Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin (1864–1931) took the helm. The brothers began experimenting...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Daum Table Lamp
By Daum
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Daum table lamp. Located in NY
Model Lynx 73 (documented).
Category
20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Glass Lamp with Air Bubbles Pattern, Signed "Daum France", circa 1975
By Daum
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glass lamp with air bubbles pattern in the cylindrical shaft.
Signed Daum France.
Work realized circa 1975.
Functional electrical system.
The "Daum France" signature is the one ...
Category
1970s French Vintage Daum Furniture
Materials
Glass
Vase by Daum Nancy
By Daum
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Etched and enameled glass vase, France, circa 1905. Etched signature to side: Daum Nancy 3501 with the cross of Lorraine. Provenance: private collection.
Category
Early 20th Century Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Art Deco Daum Freres Vase "Clematis Et Papillons"
By Daum
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Opalescent glass acid-etched with butterflies.
Overlaid and carved with flowering stems. Engraved daum
Nancy France with the cross of Lorraine.
Category
Early 20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Opaline Glass
Daum Nancy Wheel Carved Cameo Glass Vase, circa 1910
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
Daum Nancy wheel carved cameo glass case, circa 1910.
Category
Early 20th Century French Daum Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Daum furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Daum furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of glass and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Daum furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Daum were created in the Art Nouveau style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by René Lalique, Emile Gallé, and Lalique. Prices for Daum furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $275 and can go as high as $160,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $3,788.
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Questions About Daum Furniture
- Is all Daum glass signed?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Yes, Daum glass is normally signed. The location of the company's mark varies, but it usually says "Daum Nancy" above, below or beside the cross of Lorraine, a cross with two crossbars. Find a variety of Daum glass on 1stDibs.
- How is Daum glass made?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022How Daum glass is made involves a process unique to the manufacturer, called pâte de verre. It involves filling a refractory mold with finely crushed glass and then baking the piece in a kiln. Shop a collection of Daum glassware on 1stDibs.
- Are all Daum vases signed?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Yes, all Daum vases are signed. Authentic Daum glass work will have the signature “Daum Nancy” and incorporate the cross of Lorraine. Looking for a signature is one of the best ways to ensure authenticity. Browse a range of authentic Daum vases and other glassware on 1stDibs.
- Is Daum crystal marked?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 15, 2024Yes, Daum crystal is typically marked. The French maker usually adds the word "Daum Nancy" and its logo, a double cross called the Cross of Lorraine, to its pieces. You can locate the mark in a discreet area, such as on the bottom of stemware and decorative objects. Find a selection of Daum Nancy crystal wares on 1stDibs.