Jacques Gruber, Véranda "de la Salle", ca 1904
Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy
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NEWSFLASH:
Everyone who signs up for this course will be entered into a prize draw, with a chance to win this beautiful bespoke glass bead bracelet, courtesy of The Glass of Joy!
For details, Terms, and Conditions of the prize draw, see below the course details.
The 1890s saw the beginning of a veritable revolution in the field of creative design. Art was no longer just the domain of academic easel-painters, working to attract the patronage of a few wealthy buyers. Art was now for everyone, and it could be found in everything and anything - from the fork in your cutlery drawer to the silver picture frame shrouding a dead, much-loved aunt.
This new passion has many names – Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in Germany, Secession in Austria – but most people back then just called it The Modern Style.
Perhaps the most brilliant of these new artist-designers were the glass-makers. From Nancy in France to New York City, visionaries such as Émile Gallé and Louis Comfort Tiffany sought to capture the most sublime beauty through light and the mastery of glass. They had competitors! But all of them were working towards the same goal – to express the greatest beauty within the most obtainable of items.
RJW F2323 Online (via Zoom)
A 5-hour short course, delivered via 2 x 2½-hour sessions on consecutive Saturdays (Saturday 2 & Saturday 9 December, 10.30-1.00).
£40 (individual registration); £72 (for two people sharing one screen).
PRIZE DRAW DETAILS:
For more on the collaboration between The Glass of Joy and Wright History, see here and here.
The winner will be chosen at random on 2 December, 2023, and notified by email (and/or during the course, if they’re there on the day!).
If there is no place in the lucky winner’s life for a bracelet, an alternative - and equally beautiful - Viking-inspired prize is available, in the form of these gorgeous cocktail stirrers.*
*[Pedantic Historian Note Alert: I am not sure that Vikings were that into cocktails, but it does strike me that it may well be the only way to make mead vaguely palatable. YMMV, of course]
NB If you’re not the lucky winner, you can still get 10% discount on absolutely anything made by Joy!
Simply quote WrightHistory10 as a code when you order.
To see the full range of what she does, click here.