Émile Gallé, the Great Organizer

After remaining together for over a century, the bedroom furniture set designed by Émile Gallé is now scattered. His friend, art critic Roger Marx, dubbed him "homo triplex": indeed, the Nancy master was a ceramicist, glass artist and cabinetmaker, not to mention a decorator and manufacturer. This auction of furniture from a Norman château attests to his ability to create furniture with all its decorative features, like future designers. Gallé and his client, Henri Gaston de Bousquet de Florian (1866-1944), exchanged several letters. A magistrate, Bousquet de Florian had discovered Gallé’s work during the…