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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Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Muller Freres Luneville French Art Deco Glass Vase
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Located in Hamilton, Ontario
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Muller Frères Art Deco Vase, Double Mottled Glass, France, Circa 1920
By Muller Frères
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco Vase by Muller Frères, Lunéville, circa 1920. Rare and important French Art Deco glass vase by Muller Frères, produced in Lunéville, France, circa 1920, during the t...
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Art Deco Muller Frères Vase, France, 1920s
By Muller Frères
Located in Roma, IT
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$6,850
H 9.25 in Dm 8.5 in
Large Blue Muller Freres Luneville French Art Deco Intercalaire Art Glass Vase
By Muller Frères
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large Muller Freres Luneville Art Deco Intercalaire art glass vase. A fantanstic period vase in the difficult 'intercalaire' technique (in which the decoration is inserted between two layers of glass). With silver inclusions and red, yellow and black deco form glass internal layers. Simply top level Art Deco glass from one of France's best glass houses! Marks: Base bears an etched signature: Muller Fres Luneville France...
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$200,000
H 11.82 in Dm 14.18 in
Inusual Vase, Sign: Muller Freres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau
By Muller Frères
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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Muller Freres Large Sparrows Frosted Glass Vase 1920
By Muller Frères
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Large Art Deco Frosted Glass Vase with Sparrows By Muller Frères, Lunéville, France, circa 1920. A rare and poetic large Art Deco frosted glass vase by the renowned French glassmake...
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Art Nouveau Soufflé Glass Vase with Birds by Muller Frères Lunéville, France
By Émile Gallé, Muller Fres Lunneville, Muller Frères, Muller Fres Luneville
Located in North Miami, FL
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$260,000
H 8.67 in Dm 5.91 in
Unusual Vase with application, Sign: Muller Freres Luneville, Art Nouveau
By Muller Frères
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Sign: Muller Fres Luneville acid worked Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family who ...
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$6,732
H 7.88 in Dm 5.12 in
Gorgeous Muller Frères Vase in Cameo Glass with a Rare Polichrome Anemone Decor
By Muller Frères
Located in Bochum, NRW
Gorgeous Muller Frères Vase, Art Nouveau Cameo Glass with a Rare Anemone Decor, circa 1920. Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Anemone Vase by Muller Frères, c...
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Muller Freres vase/ bowl cameo etched enamel acid glass .
By Muller Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice landscape berries , leaf , branches in yellow and dark red specks by Muller Freres with acid work .
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$220,000
H 12.6 in Dm 13 in
Inusual Vase, Sign: Muller Freres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau
By Muller Frères
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Sign: Muller Freres Luneville acid worked Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family wh...
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$17,000
H 9.06 in Dm 5.12 in
Vase, Sign: Muller Fres Luneville, Style: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty
By Muller Frères
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Sign: Muller Fres Luneville acid worked Muller Feres The heart of the company was formed by five brothers (Henri, Desire, Eugene, Pierre, Victor) from a glass making family who ...
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