EDGAR WILLIAM BRANDT (1880-1960) DAUM FRERES Art deco pair of wall lights

signed ‘E.Brandt’ and ‘Daum & Nancy France’ pair of wall lights with silver patina with two curved, tapered and fluted arms of light horn of plenty and tulips out of yellow-orange tinted multi-layer glass with inclusions of gold powders and stylized decoration released with the acid. The mounting plate is finely chiseled with a naturalist motif height: 50 cm width: 31 cm Executed circa 1925 The Compagnie Française du Cristal Daum is a crystal factory founded by the Daum brothers in 1878 in Nancy, Lorraine. The workshops of the Daum Frères Auguste (1853-1909) and Antonin (1864-1930) also trained some of the great names of Art Nouveau such as Jacques Grüber, Henri Bergé, Almaric Walter or the Schneider brothers. Edgar William Brandt (1880-1960) was a French iron worker and prolific weapons designer. In 1901 he set up a small workshop in Paris, where he began designing, silversmithing, and forging small items such as jewelry, crosses, and brooches. His business began to take off with special commissions such as the door of the French Embassy in Brussels, the Escalier Mollien stairs in the Louvre, and the stair and balcony railing for the Grand Theatre Municipal de Nancy.