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  1. 1846-1904. French Art Nouveau glassmaker. He
  2. produced glass in sinuous forms or rounded,
  3. solid-looking shapes almost as heavy as
  4. stone, typically decorated with flowers or
  5. leaves in colour on colour. After training in
  6. various parts of Europe, he worked at his
  7. father's glass factory and eventually took it
  8. over. A founder of the Ecole de Nancy, he
  9. designed furniture as well as achieving
  10. significant developments in the techniques of
  11. glassmaking.
  12.