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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Antique French Galle Style Muller Freres Cameo Art Glass Landscape Table Lamp
By Muller Frères
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique original, authentic, Art Nouveau French cameo glass table lamp, signed Muller Freres, circa 1900. Established in Lunéville, France, Muller Frères consisted of a group ...
Art Glass
Large Antique French Art Deco Daum Glass & Edgar Brandt Iron Table Lamp 1920s
By Daum, Edgar Brandt
Located in Portland, OR
A large antique Art Deco wrought iron and blown Art Glass table lamp, in the style of Daum Glass and the metalwork of Edgar Brandt, 1920s. The lamp base is made of blackened hand-fo...
Iron
Antique American Arts & Crafts 3 Light Slag Glass Table Lamp by Miller Co. 1910
By Miller Lamp Company
Located in Portland, OR
A fine, large antique American Arts & Crafts slag glass and brass table lamp, by The Miller Lamp Company, circa 1910. This very elegant lamp features an octagonal multi-paneled sla...
Bronze, Brass
Antique Italian Renaissance Brass Lucerne Florentine Chatelaine Oil Lamp 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A good 19th century Italian 'Florentine' or 'Lucerne' 4 burner brass oil lamp, in the Renaissance Revival manner, circa 1860. Designed to burn whale oil which is placed into a reserv...
Brass
Antique Art Deco Bronze Nude Female Statue Sculpture Lamp Demetre Chiparus 1925
By Demetre Chiparus
Located in Portland, OR
A very rare original Art Deco bronze statue lamp modeled as a beautiful nude dancer, by Demetre Haralamb Chiparus (1886-1947), circa 1925. The bronze is raised on a black & white var...
Marble, Bronze
Italian Mid Century Modern Chrome Glass Table Lamp Sciolari Venini Murano 1960
By Sciolari Lighting, Venini
Located in Portland, OR
A sleek Mid Century Modern Italian chrome & glass table lamp by Sciolari with Venini glass, circa 1960. The lamp having ten 'cracked ice' glass shades in a circle surrounding one lar...
Chrome
MULLER FRERES & G.MARCHAND French Art Nouveau / Deco Desk / Table Lamp, 1910s
By Muller Frères, Marchand
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
This striking French Art Deco desk or table lamp was created in France in the late 1910s, combining the celebrated glasswork of Muller Frères, Lunéville, with an elegant sculptural b...
Wrought Iron
Muller Frères Luneville Art Nouveau Lamp
By Muller Fres Lunneville
Located in NANTES, FR
Sublime Art Nouveau lamp circa 1905. Bronze base, acid-etched glass paste tulip decorated with anemone flowers. Electricized in the US and in perfect condition. Signed Muller Frères ...
Bronze
French 1910s Art Nouveau Brass Table Desk Lamp
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Art Nouveau Brass table desk lamp with brass shade and wooden base. ca. 1920 Natural aged with small cracks in edge shade 2,5 meter black cotton flex with plug and switch in bulb h...
Brass
Large Art Nouveau Desk Lamp by Michael Powolny for Loetz, Austria, 1910s
By Michael Powolny
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
Exceptional Austrian Art Nouveau swiveling desk or table lamp designed by Michael Powolny for Loetz, Bohemia, dating to the 1910s. This highly decorative example combines a sculptura...
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Desk Table Lamp by Charles Schneider, C. 1920
By Charles Schneider
Located in Toronto, Ontario
French Art Nouveau desk table lamp by Charles Schneider (Epinay-sur-Seine, Paris), France, C.1920 on stylised bronze base. The base also with concealed opening for an inkwell. The glass shade was made of blown double glass. Measures approximately 14.00 x 8.00 x 6.00 inches. Lamp shade, white, orange, and amber yellow. Signed Schneider on the shade (difficult to photograph see photos), also with signed base for probably the foundry. The Schneider Glassworks, established by brothers Charles and Ernest Schneider in Epinay-sur-Seine, France, in 1917. Very small chip to top shade fitting, see last photograph. The Schneider Glassworks, established by brothers Charles and Ernest Schneider in Epinay-sur-Seine, France, in 1917, was among the leading producers of fine-art glass between the two world wars, creating exuberantly colorful vessels...
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Bronze Table Lamp with Glass Shade Signed GV De Croismare
By G.V. Croismare
Located in Barntrup, DE
French Art Nouveau bronze table lamp with glass shade signed GV de Croismare, from circa the 1920s. An adorable and large French bronze table lamp adorned with acanthus leaf scrolls and Rococo shell...
Bronze
