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Introduction
Lover of Nature
The Best is the Enemy of the Good
The Symbolic Decor
Toast Pronounced at the Lorraine-Artiste Banquet on 16 February 1901
Porcelain
L’École de Nancy in Paris
Master Glassmaker
The Pasteur Vase
The Balsam Tree
The Hazel Tree
Wreck
The Prouvé Vase
The Official Artist
About the Prix de Rome
The Exhibitions of 1897
My Shipments to the Salon
Goncourt and the Arts and Crafts
The Decorator
Contemporary Furniture Adorned by Nature
The Table with Garden Herbs
Fruits of the Spirit
Biography
Pitcher, c. 1878. Faience, yellow flakes, white tin glaze, height: 45 cm, width: 38 cm, depth: 19 cm. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
“Chasseur et Chasseresse” coffee service, 1882–1884. Faience, yellow flakes, blue tin glaze, coffee pot: height: 26.5 cm, width: 22 cm, depth: 15 cm. Musée de l’École de Nancy, Nancy.
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We should turn off “the morning star and the evening star”, we should erase these quotes, the constellations. For the symbol to disappear forever in art, we will have to clear, “God, the sacred star that perceives the soul”, being, in fact, the word of the entire nature, from reign to reign, from symbol to symbol, from reflection to reflection:
And that is precisely what has been the strength of our national art, from its primitive manifestations until the emotional gesture that ascends the prayer of our cathedrals skyward. That is what made its beauty in its green expansion of the 13th century: because it was not locked up in the studio, like ivy on the trunk of the oak, it clung to the free nature, this is to say, to symbolism itself. Baudelaire worded in a grand way this view of harmonic resonances in the vast creation:
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