Daum Nancy Crystal Candelabra with Three Arms
View Similar Items
Daum Nancy Crystal Candelabra with Three Arms
About the Item
Daum
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.
- Set of Three French Crystal Candlestick by DaumBy DaumLocated in Palm Springs, CA1970’s set of three French crystal candle holders by Daum. This are hand blown with a triangular shaped bases. They are all signed Daum ...Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
MaterialsCrystal
- Daum Modernist Crystal CandlesticksBy DaumLocated in New York, NYPair of moderist solid crystal candlesticks each holding 2 candles, Daum crystal. Signed.Category
20th Century French Modern Candlesticks
MaterialsCrystal
$2,400 / set - Pair of Daum Crystal CandlesticksBy DaumLocated in Brooklyn, NYlocated in nyCategory
20th Century Candle Holders
MaterialsCrystal
$4,500 / set - Daum Modernist Crystal Candlestick, France, 1970'sBy DaumLocated in Costa Mesa, CADaum Modernist Crystal Candlestick, France, 1970's.Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
MaterialsCrystal
$360 Sale Price20% Off - Candelabra with Three Arms from the 1960s in Painted MetalLocated in Saint-Ouen, FRCandelabra with three arms from the 1960s in painted metal.Category
Vintage 1960s French Modern Candelabras
MaterialsMetal
- Pair of Important Gilt Bronze Candelabra with Cut Crystal Arms, 1780sBy Piat Joseph Sauvage 1Located in Stockholm, SEA pair of important and highly unusual candelabra from the 1780s. The bases are made of gilt bronze with inserted, glasscovered paintings on ivory. The paintings are by Piat-Joseph S...Category
Antique Late 18th Century European Louis XVI Candelabras
MaterialsCrystal, Bronze
$21,094 Sale Price / set46% Off