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Muller Frères Pair of Art Deco Wall Lights
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Pair of Muller Frères wall lights circa 1925.
Gilt bronze mount.
Glass paste tulips, signed Muller Frères Luneville.
Electrified and in perfect condition.
Total height: 30 cm
Width: 10 cm
Depth: 22 cm
Weight: 1.4 Kg
The Muller brothers, founders of the Muller Frères glassworks in Lunéville, are French art glassmakers of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods. The family includes nine brothers and one sister. They will all be trained in the glasswork trades. The best known are Eugène Muller (1883-1914), Désiré Muller (1877-1952) and Henri Muller (1868-1936).
Although several works suggest that the Muller brothers, originally from Kalhausen (Moselle), settled in Lunéville in 18701, recent research has established that the elder brothers of this family left Moselle for Nancy for a very specific purpose: they were recruited in 1894 by Emile Gallé. Indeed, the master glassmaker from Nancy changed his manufacturing strategy and broke off his commercial ties with the Meisenthal glassworks in 1894. That same year, Emile Gallé had his own glass furnaces built in Nancy and recruited workers: the elder brothers of the Muller family, Emile, Henri and Désiré were then hired by Émile Gallé as clerks or glass engravers-decorators.
The elder brothers of the Muller family were trained in glassworks at the Saint Louis crystal factory and the Meisenthal glassworks alongside Désiré Christian.
But in 1897, Henri Muller left Émile Gallé, perhaps taking some manufacturing secrets with him. He entered into an association with the Croismare glassworks. His production was in direct competition with those of Emile Gallé and the Daum factory.
At the time, the glasses were blown in Croismare, in the glassworks known as the Hinzelin goblet factory. A second glassworks was established in Lunéville itself in 1910. Both factories specialized in art glassware. Many pieces came out of them, of fine technical quality and very close to those produced in the Gallé factory in Nancy: vases, lamps and typically Art Nouveau trinkets.
The production was most often in multi-layer glass, wheel-cut or engraved with hydrofluoric acid with naturalist representations. The most beautiful pieces were finished by fire polishing to give them a beautiful shine.
From 1905 to 1908, Désiré and Eugène Muller were recruited by Léon Ledru, director of the decoration workshop of the Val-Saint-Lambert crystal works in Seraing, Belgium. Their work consisted of creating a series of decorative glassware in the Art Nouveau and Nancy School styles.
After the First World War, the Muller company became prosperous and the factory employed up to three hundred people. Production subsequently evolved towards the Art Deco style, creating in the 1920s numerous ceiling lights in marbled glass (glass of several colours, the pigments being incorporated) or pieces in moulded glass, the frames being in brass, bronze or wrought iron.
Toilet sets, sprays and perfume bottles were also manufactured in large numbers at this time.
In parallel with this industrial production, artistic glassware was still produced.
Following the Great Depression, the Muller company went bankrupt in 1933 and the Croismare factory, which had been bought by Daum, closed at the end of 19341. In the 1950s, it was transformed into a glassmaking training centre.
- Creator:Muller Frères (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 3.94 in (10 cm)Depth: 8.67 in (22 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Power Source:Hardwired
- Voltage:110-150v,220-240v
- Lampshade:Included
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1925
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- Seller Location:NANTES, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7403242480922
Muller Frères
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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