Art Nouveau Glass
Art Nouveau first emerged as a distinct style, in around 1895 and achieved widespread popularity shortly afterwards, when the style was show cased at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. The English name for the style derives from the Maison de l'Art Nouveau , and interior design gallery in Paris, however the movement has different names throughout Europe. The style is typified by the use of natural forms treated in an unrealistic manner. In most cases there is a tendency to abstraction, to the extent that the original inspiration for a piece is no longer recognisable. The manufacture of such stylised works required great technical skill.
The Cecil Higgins glass collection includes work by Emille Galle, the Daum Brothers and Louis Comfort Tiffany, in which the organic sculptural form of Art Nouveau is integral to the glass itself.
