Mushroom Lamp Signed Le Verre Français

Mushroom-shaped lamp with art nouveau decor signed Le Verre Français harles Schneider, born February 23, 1881 in Château-Thierry and died January 7, 1953 in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine), is a French master glassmaker of Art Deco , student of Jean Daum in Nancy and creator of the art glass brand Le Verre français, with his brother Ernest Schneider (1877-1937). Ernest and Charles Schneider grew up in Nancy. In 1903, Ernest Schneider (1877-1937) was hired by the commercial management of the Daum Frères factory. He got his younger brother Charles, trained in sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Nancy and then in Paris, to propose projects for vases and glass pastes. This collaboration continued until 1911. They founded their own company, Verreries Schneider, in Épinay-sur-Seine in 1913. The success of the company was confirmed after the end of hostilities in 1918. It had up to five hundred employees in 1925 and sold his creations all over the world. After 1918, the first pieces with enameled decoration of flowers and landscapes took up the studies drawn before the war. However, Charles Schneider quickly became the sole creator of the pieces. Gradually moving away from Art Nouveau, he developed a very personal genre, characterized by bright, powerful, contrasting colors and naturalistic and stylized motifs, perfectly symbolizing the Art Deco style of the interwar period2. The company produces under two brands, Le Verre français and the Schneider line.