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Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France. ============================================== Emil Gallé (French: Emil Gallé; May 4, 1846, Nancy - September 23, 1904, ibid.) - an outstanding French artist of the Art Nouveau style (French: art nouveau), a reformer of artistic glassmaking, a painter, draftsman, ceramist, furniture designer and interior decorator, botanist and gardener, poet -symbolist and art theorist.