Émile Gallé, a French designer, illustrator, decorator, and glass artist.
- In 1901, he created the Alliance Provinciale des Artistes, known as the École de Nancy, a group of artists with enormous influence in the spread of Art Nouveau in France.
- He had the support of designers Victor Prouvé and Louis Majorelle.
- Son of glass and ceramic merchant Charles Gallé, he began designing decorations on glass and ceramics for his father at a very young age, and later studied botany and mineralogy in Weimar (Germany) and the art of glassmaking in Meisenthal (France).
- Starting in the 1870s, he produced works in glass and, to a lesser extent, designed furniture and ceramics.
- He was highly acclaimed at the major Paris exhibitions. By then, he already had his own factory.
- The works they produced were sold at Samuel Bing's L'Art Nouveau, and in the year he died, he had opened a shop in London.
