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Furniture and Textiles

UEA 21001 - Sellette, Emile Gallé

UEA 21001 - Sellette, Emile Gallé

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UEA 21022 - Lampshade, Louis Comfort Tiffany

UEA 21022 - Lampshade, Louis Comfort Tiffany

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UEA 21004 - Etagère, Louis Majorelle

UEA 21004 - Etagère, Louis Majorelle

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The Ecole de Nancy is well represented with works by its founding president Emile Gallé and vice-president Louis Majorelle.

All of the Gallé furniture in the Anderson Collection demonstrates the intricate and delicate marquetry decoration for which Gallé was renowned. Indigenous and exotic woods were used, drawn from a stock of some six hundred veneers to reproduce landscape and botanical designs often associated with the Lorraine region of France, about which Galle was passionate.

There are also pieces by Louis Majorelle and a large carpet, previously attributed to William Morris, now thought to be a Donegal hand-knotted carpet made by Morton & Co.