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Ville de Nancy / Musée de l’École de Nancy
36-38 rue du Sergent Blandan
54 000 NANCY
France
phone +33 03 83 40 14 86
mail
menancy@mairie-nancy.fr
The city of Nancy, already rich of an XVIIIth century heritage, was, one and a half century later, witness of a new dynamism in the field of decorative arts and became along with Paris, one of the leading centers of Art Nouveau in France. Through the decisive impetus given by Emile Gallé, glassmaker, ceramicist and cabinet-maker, an alliance of artists and art industrialists gathered in 1901 under the name of “École de Nancy”. Using plants as their main source of inspiration, Gallé, Majorelle, Daum, Prouvé, Gruber, Vallin and others not only gave the art objects an artistic quality but also a new social dimension producing a mix of unique masterpieces and less expensive industrial pieces. The originality of the École de Nancy lies in the fact that there is a close bond between art and industry, and technical innovations in glass, ceramics, textile, leather or metal also led to the creation of new objects.
The Art Nouveau buildings by Emile André or Lucien Weissenburger were able to create the artistic and functional spirit of the École de Nancy in the urban space. More than one hundred buildings (commerce, coffee houses, apartment buildings, banks…) resolutely “new” are still important in the landscape of Nancy today. One of the most spectacular mansion is the Villa Majorelle, designed by Henri Sauvage for the cabinet-maker Louis Majorelle. Formerly known as the “Villa Jika”, the house has undertook a major renovation and appears as a paragon of the École de Nancy’s precepts of perfect unity between style and comfort, where beauty is intricately combined with utility.
Settled in the old property of Eugène Corbin, – main patron of that time – the museum of the École de Nancy collects art objects (glass, ceramics, furniture, lights, bookbinding…) signed by the most important artists of the Ecole de Nancy. Rather than attempting to faithfully reproduce scenes from the early 1900s, the museum aims to create the atmosphere of the period by combining objets d’art, furniture and stained glass. The Fine Arts Museum of Nancy, on the place Stanislas, hosts a collection of more than three hundred Daum glasses and presents a number of masterpieces of the painters of the École de Nancy: Emile Friant, Victor Prouvé, Camille Martin and Henri Royer.
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