Editing Art Deco (section)

==Glass art==
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Gros. Falster a-s - no-nb digifoto 20160412 00011 NB NS NM 07745 A.jpg|Bottles, unknown designer or producer (1920s)
File:'Oiseau de Feu' made by René Lalique, Dayton Art Institute.JPG|''The Firebird'' by [[René Lalique]] (1922), [[Dayton Art Institute]], US
File:Vase (Perruches) by René Jules Lalique, 1922, blown four mold glass - Cincinnati Art Museum - DSC04355.JPG|''Parrot'' vase  by Lalique (1922), [[Cincinnati Art Museum]], US
File:Vitraux Louis Majorelle, Grands Bureaux des Aciéries de Longwy 03.jpg|Window for a steel mill office  by [[Louis Majorelle]] (1928), [[Grands bureaux des Aciéries de Longwy]], Longlaville, France
File:Arnaldo Dell'Ira (1903-1943), lampada a grattacielo, 1929.jpg|''Skyscraper Lamp'', designed by [[Arnaldo dell'Ira]] (1929), [[Arnaldo dell'Ira Collection]]
File:A light fixture in the Leeds Uni. library (353154643).jpg|Angular chandeliers by Lanchester & Lodge ({{circa|1929–1936}}), [[Brotherton Library]], University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hardwood|first1=Elain|title=Art Deco Britain - Buildings of the Interwar Years|date=2019|publisher=Batsford|isbn=9781849945271|page=60|url=|language=en}}</ref>
File:Vase des années 30 (musée des arts décoratifs) (4782889920).jpg|Vase by [[Daum (studio)|Daum]] ({{circa|1930–1935}}), [[Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris|Museum of Decorative Arts]], Paris
File:Cathedral of Amiens glass window.jpg|Stained glass windows by [[Jean Gaudin (glass artist)|Jean Gaudin]] (1932–1934), [[Amiens Cathedral]], Amiens, France
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Like the Art Nouveau period before it, Art Deco was an exceptional period for fine glass and other decorative objects designed to fit their architectural surroundings. The most famous producer of glass objects was René Lalique, whose works, from vases to hood ornaments for automobiles, became symbols of the period. He had experimented with glass before World War I, designing bottles for the perfumes of [[François Coty]], but he did not begin serious production of art glass until after World War I. In 1918, at the age of 58, he bought a large glass works in Combs-la-Ville and began to manufacture both artistic and practical glass objects. He treated glass as a form of sculpture, creating statuettes, vases, bowls, lamps and ornaments. He used demi-crystal rather than lead crystal, which was softer and easier to form, though not as lustrous. He sometimes used coloured glass, but more often used opalescent glass, where part or the whole of the outer surface was stained with a wash. Lalique provided the decorative glass panels, lights and illuminated glass ceilings for the ocean liners {{SS|Île de France}} in 1927 and the SS ''Normandie'' in 1935, and for some of the first-class sleeping cars of the French railroads. At the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts, he had his own pavilion, designed a dining room with a table setting and matching glass ceiling for the Sèvres Pavilion, and designed a glass fountain for the courtyard of the Cours des Métiers, a slender glass column which spouted water from the sides and was illuminated at night.{{Sfn|Arwas|1992|pages=245–250}}

Other notable Art Deco glass manufacturers included Marius-Ernest Sabino, who specialized in figurines, vases, bowls, and glass sculptures of fish, nudes, and animals. For these he often used an opalescent glass which could change from white to blue to amber, depending upon the light. His vases and bowls featured molded friezes of animals, nudes or busts of women with fruit or flowers. His work was less subtle but more colourful than that of Lalique.{{Sfn|Arwas|1992|pages=245–250}}

Other notable Deco glass designers included [[Edmond Etling]], who also used bright opalescent colours, often with geometric patterns and sculpted nudes; Albert Simonet, and Aristide Colotte and [[Maurice Marinot]], who was known for his deeply etched sculptural bottles and vases. The firm of [[Daum (studio)|Daum]] from the city of [[Nancy, France|Nancy]], which had been famous for its Art Nouveau glass, produced a line of Deco vases and glass sculpture, solid, geometric and chunky in form. More delicate multi-coloured works were made by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, who produced delicately shaded vases with sculpted butterflies and nymphs, and Francois Decorchemont, whose vases were streaked and marbled.{{Sfn|Arwas|1992|pages=245–250}}

The Great Depression impacted on the decorative glass industry, which depended upon wealthy clients. Some artists turned to designing stained glass windows for churches. In 1937, the [[Steuben Glass Works|Steuben]] glass company began the practice of commissioning famous artists to produce glassware.{{Sfn|Arwas|1992|pages=245–250}} [[Louis Majorelle]], famous for his Art Nouveau furniture, designed a remarkable Art Deco stained glass window portraying steel workers for the offices of the [[Aciéries de Longwy]], a steel mill in [[Longwy]], France.

[[Amiens Cathedral]] has a rare example of Art Deco stained glass windows in the Chapel of the Sacred Heart, made in 1932–34 by the Paris glass artist [[Jean Gaudin (glass artist)|Jean Gaudin]] based on drawings by Jacques Le Breton.{{Sfn|Plagnieux|2003|p=82}}